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The Good Soldier Schweik
The Good Soldier Schweik

The Good Soldier Schweik

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ComedyAnimation

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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.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

Czech

Runtime

76 mins

Rating

7.2/10

Release Date

04 October 1956

Country

Czechoslovakia

Cast

Jan Werich

Jan Werich

Narrator

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