Good-natured and garrulous, Švejk 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.
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Rudolf Hrušínský Eva Svobodová Josef Hlinomaz František Filipovský Miloš Kopecký Svatopluk Beneš Božena Havlíčková Felix le Breux Libuše Bokrová Olga Karásková Bedřich Karen Václav Poláček Josef Kemr Josef Šidlichovský František Kreuzmann Vladimír Řepa Eman Fiala Vladimír Leraus Miloš Nedbal Stanislav Neumann Jiřina Steimarová Světla Svozilová Bedřich Vrbský Bohuš Záhorský Václav Kyzlink Vladimír Majer Theodor Strejcius Miroslav Homola Jiří Lír Milka Balek-Brodská Rudolf Deyl Milan Neděla Antonín Jedlička Otto Lackovič Miloš Patočka Jan Maška Miloslav Homola Stella Zázvorková Alena Kreuzmannová Ladislav Krečmer Karel Hovorka Oskar Hák Václav Švec Arnošt Faltýnek Viktor Očásek Václav Trégl Jaroslav Vojta František Černý Josef Bláha Marie Grossová Zdeněk Martínek Antonín Lebeda Kamil Bešťák Bohuslav Kupšovský Jan Skopeček Marie Nováková Josef Benátský Václav Wasserman Stanislav Langer Otto Hradecký Oldřich Hoblík František Marek Jaroslav Radimecký Věra Koktová Antonín Soukup Milan Mach František Kubíček Fanda Mrázek Adolf Šmíd Milena Asmanová Václav Vydra Karel Hlušička Richard Záhorský Antonín Žďárský Zdeněk Erben Jan Petřík Kajetán Maudr Slávka Rosenbergová Ladislav Navrátil Míla Vojta A. Končel Galina Korotkevich
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