The Good Soldier Švejk

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.

CAST

Rudolf HrušínskýJosef Švejk

Eva SvobodováMüllerová

Josef HlinomazPalivec

František Filipovskýagent Bretschneider

Miloš Kopeckýfeldkurát Katz

Svatopluk Benešnadporučík Lukáš

Božena HavlíčkováKaty Wendlerová

Felix le Breuxpolicejní rada

Libuše Bokrovábaronka von Botzenheimová

Olga Karásková

Bedřich Karenprofesor Heuer

Václav Poláček

Josef Kemrvyšší voják z eskorty

Josef Šidlichovskýnižší voják z eskorty

František KreuzmannKatzův věřitel