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Cast

Jan Werich

Jan Werich

Narrator

Crew

Jiří Trnka

Jiří Trnka

Director

Jaroslav Hašek

Jaroslav Hašek

Author

Emanuel Franek

Emanuel Franek

Camera Operator

Jan Werich

Jan Werich

Adaptation

Jiří Trnka

Jiří Trnka

Writer

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The Good Soldier Schweik

19567.2 / 1076 min
Comedy, Animation

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.