The Good Soldier Schweik

The Good Soldier Schweik

1.5. 14:05
ČT1 SM
110 minutes
1957
Comedy / War

Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.

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Czech Czech
1957
Comedy / War

Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk becomes the Austrian army's most loyal Czech soldier when he is called up on the outbreak of World War I -- although his bumbling attempts to get to the front serve only to prevent him from reaching it. Playing cards and getting drunk, he uses all his cunning and genial subterfuge to deal with the police, clergy, and officers who chivy him toward battle.

Creators

Jan Seidel, Karel Steklý, Karel Steklý

Cast

Rudolf Deyl ml., Karel Hovorka st., Václav Sloup, František Holar, Adolf Vojta-Jurný, František Kreuzmann st., Václav Vydra ml., Marcela Sedláčková, Končel, Žák, Miloš Kopecký, Olga Karásková, Václav Vydra, Václav Trégl, Rudolf Deyl, Josef Hlinomaz, Otto Lackovič, Viktor Očásek, Vladimír Leraus, Josef Bláha, Jan Maška, Miloš Nedbal, Eva Svobodová, Božena Havlíčková, Libuše Bokrová, Eman Fiala, Bedřich Karen, Josef Kemr, Josef Šidlichovský, František Kreuzmann, Bedřich Vrbský, Antonín Jedlička, Alena Kreuzmannová, Marie Grossová, František Černý, Oskar Hák, Karel Hovorka, Jan Skopeček, Jaroslav Vojta, Antonín Soukup, Věra Koktová, Arnošt Faltýnek, Milka Balek-Brodská, Bohuslav Kupšovský, Václav Švec, Miloslav Homola, Zdeněk Martínek, Stanislav Langer, Marie Nováková, František Kubíček, Vladimír Majer, František Marek, Milan Neděla, Oldřich Hoblík, Miloš Patočka, Antonín Lebeda, Václav Kyzlink, Karel Hlušička, Ladislav Krečmer, Richard Záhorský, Adolf Šmíd, Ladislav Navrátil, Slávka Rosenbergová, Antonín Žďárský, Stella Zázvorková, Bohuš Záhorský, Stanislav Neumann, Zdeněk Erben, Felix le Breux, Vladimír Řepa, František Filipovský, Jiří Lír, Josef Benátský, Rudolf Hrušínský, Svatopluk Beneš, Václav Wasserman, Milan Mach, Světla Svozilová, Miroslav Homola, Otto Hradecký, Václav Poláček, Jiřina Steimarová, Kamil Bešťák, Jan Petřík, Jaroslav Radimecký, Theodor Strejcius, Míla Vojta, Milena Asmanová, Kajetán Maudr, A. Končel, Fanda Mrázek, Galina Korotkevich