The Good Soldier Schweik (1954)

Original title

Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka

Directed by

Jiří Trnka, Bohuslav Šrámek

Genre

comedy film, puppet film, animated film

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

1h 16m

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A puppet film follows the misadventures of a cheerful soldier caught in bureaucratic chaos during World War I. He gets into absurd situations as he tries to travel to the front lines.

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What happens

The Good Soldier Schweik (Czech: Dobrý voják Svejk) is a 1954 Czechoslovak animated film directed by Jiří Trnka based on the novel The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek. Its length is 76 minutes and consists of three episodes, From Hatvan to Halič, Švejk train accidents and Švejk Budějovice anabasi. Narrator: Jan Werich. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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