The Good Soldier Švejk (1957)

The Good Soldier Švejk (1957) - Comedy Movies 108 minutes. Svejk, a derék katona, Добрий солдат Швейк, The Good Soldier Schweik. 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. based on novel or book, world war i