The Good Soldier Schweik

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.

Country:

Czechoslovakia

Genre:

Comedy,

Animation

Duration:

76 minutes

Year:

1956

Director:

Jiří Trnka

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Company:

Loutkový film Praha

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