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The Good Soldier Svejk (1956)
Directed by Jiří Trnka
Comedy, Animation · 1h 16m
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.
Cast
Jan Werich
Crew
- Director
- Jiří Trnka
- Writer
- Jiří Trnka
Details
- Original title
- Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka
- Release date
- 1956-10-04
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Genres
- Comedy, Animation
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Production
- Loutkový film Praha