The Good Soldier Svejk

Overview

Adapting Jaroslav Hasek's raucous satirical novel, and also bringing Josef Lada's equally famous illustrations to garrulous puppet life, posed Trnka one of his biggest creative challenges. Trnka himself felt that the final episode was the most artistically successful, but there's much to enjoy in all three, not least the way that the lackadaisical layabout Svejk's own self-serving anecdotes are realized through cut-out animation.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

October 4, 1956

Original language

Czech

Spoken languages

Czech

Countries

Czechoslovakia

Production

Loutkový film Praha

Cast

Jan Werich

Director

Jiří Trnka

Writer

Jaroslav Hašek,Jiří Trnka,Jan Werich

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0239348