ComedyAnimation
The Good Soldier 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.
Directed by Jiří Trnka
73
User score
13 votes
Status
Released
Released
October 4, 1956
Runtime
1h 16m
Language
Czech
