The Good Soldier Schweik
Directed by Jiří TrnkaAdapting 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.
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The Good Soldier Schweik was released on August 19, 1954.
The Good Soldier Schweik was directed by Jiří Trnka.
The Good Soldier Schweik has a runtime of 76m.
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.
The key characters in The Good Soldier Schweik are Narrator (Jan Werich).
The Good Soldier Schweik is a Comedy, Animation film.
The Good Soldier Schweik has an audience rating of 7.4 out of 10.