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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Rudolf HrušínskýJosef Švejk
Eva SvobodováMüllerová
Josef HlinomazPalivec
František Filipovskýagent Bretschneider
Miloš Kopeckýfeldkurát Katz
Svatopluk Benešnadporučík Lukáš
Felix le Breuxpolicejní rada
Bedřich Karenprofesor HeuerExplore the crew
- Director
- Karel Steklý
- Director of Photography
- Rudolf Stahl
- Screenplay
- Karel Steklý
- Original Music Composer
- Jan Seidel
- Editor
- Miroslav Hájek