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.
Directed by Karel Steklý
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Cast

Rudolf Hrušínský
Josef Švejk

Eva Svobodová
Müllerová

Josef Hlinomaz
Palivec

František Filipovský
agent Bretschneider

Miloš Kopecký
feldkurát Katz

Svatopluk Beneš
nadporučík Lukáš
Božena Havlíčková
Katy Wendlerová

Felix le Breux
policejní rada
Libuše Bokrová
baronka von Botzenheimová
Olga Karásková

Bedřich Karen
profesor Heuer
Václav Poláček

Josef Kemr
vyšší voják z eskorty
Josef Šidlichovský
nižší voják z eskorty
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