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Kléber
12th January 2010, 00:57
Has anyone seen these movies and what do you think about them? And the director? Lots of people call him a collaborator because he made movies during the Nazi occupation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussite_Wars

Aside from glorifying the Christian communist Taborite faction, these movies have some faithful reenactments of the renowned Hussite war wagons cutting down swarms of knights. Jan Žižka, the blind revolutionary general, is distinguished by his eyepatch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zapSxda7HY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpaeyIbk8N8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afEfCniXWV8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE-ghxHNhl0