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The Good Soldier Švejk (1957)

The Good Soldier Švejk (1957)

Comedy War
Release Date: 1957, August 23
Directors: Karel Steklý
Countries: Czechoslovakia
Production: Filmové studio Barrandov
Cast: Rudolf Hrušínský, Stella Zázvorková, František Černý, Miloš Kopecký, Josef Kemr, Svatopluk Beneš, Alena Kreuzmannová, František Filipovský, Jiřina Steimarová, Antonín Jedlička, Eva Svobodová, Miloš Nedbal

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book world war i