The Good Soldier Schweik (1956)

The Good Soldier Schweik (1956) - Comedy Movies 76 minutes. The Good Soldier Svejk, Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka, Добрият войник Швейк, Den gode soldat Svejks eventyr, Le brave soldat Svejk, Svejk, a derék katona, Dobry wojak Szwejk, Den tappre soldaten Svejk, Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk, Похождения бравого солдата Швейка, Dobrý voják Svejk. 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. based on novel or book, world war i, stop motion