The Good Soldier Schweik (1931)

Original title

Dobrý voják Švejk

Directed by

Martin Frič

Genre

comedy film, war film

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

57 min

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A bumbling Czech soldier gets caught up in the absurdities of World War I. He navigates the chaos with a mix of idiocy and cunning.

satiricalabsurdistdarkly comicwhimsicalgroundedperiodwry

What happens

The Good Soldier Schweik (Czech: Dobrý voják Švejk) is a 1931 Czechoslovak black-and-white comedy film directed by Martin Frič, based on Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.