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The Good Soldier Schweik

Plot: 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
Release Date: Thursday, October 4 1956
68 years ago
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Portrait of Jan WerichJan WerichJan Werich was 51 in The Good Soldier Schweik as 'Narrator'.
Birthday: Mon, Feb 06 1905 –
Fri, Oct 31 1980

Crew

Portrait of Jiří TrnkaJiří TrnkaJiří Trnka was 44 in The Good Soldier Schweik as 'Director, Writer'
Birthday: Sat, Feb 24 1912 –
Tue, Dec 30 1969
Portrait of Jan WerichJan WerichJan Werich was 51 in The Good Soldier Schweik as 'Adaptation'
Birthday: Mon, Feb 06 1905 –
Fri, Oct 31 1980
Portrait of Jaroslav HašekJaroslav HašekJaroslav Hašek would have been no older than 39 in The Good Soldier Schweik as 'Author'
Birthday: Mon, Apr 30 1883 –
Wed, Jan 03 1923
Portrait of Emanuel FranekEmanuel FranekEmanuel Franek was >> in The Good Soldier Schweik as 'Camera Operator'
Birthday: Unknown Birthday