The Good Soldier Švejk
19571h 48mNo ratings yet
- Comedy
- War
Overview
Good-natured and garrulous, Schweik 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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 23, 1957
- Original language
- Czech
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Production
- Filmové studio Barrandov
- Cast
- Rudolf Hrušínský,Eva Svobodová,Josef Hlinomaz,František Filipovský,Miloš Kopecký,Svatopluk Beneš,Božena Havlíčková,Felix le Breux,Libuše Bokrová,Olga Karáskováand 71 more
- Director
- Karel Steklý
- Writer
- Karel Steklý,Jaroslav Hašek
- Cinematography
- Rudolf Stahl
- Music
- Jan Seidel
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0049147