Film
The Good Soldier Svejk
1956Directed by Jiří Trnka
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
About The Good Soldier Svejk
- Comedy
- Animation
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Jiří Trnka
- Writers
- Jaroslav Hašek
- Jan Werich
- Jiří Trnka
- Original title
- Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka
