The Good Soldier Švejk
(1957)
★ 7.5 IMDb · 43 votes
Year: 1957
Runtime: 108 мин
Country: Czechoslovakia
Director: Karel Steklý
Cast: Rudolf Hrušínský, Eva Svobodová, Йозеф Глиномаз, Франтишек Филиповски, Милош Копецкий, Svatopluk Beneš, Božena Havlíčková, Felix le Breux, Libuše Bokrová, Olga Karásková
Plot
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.