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The Good Soldier Schweik

1986 · 1 season

A wry, handcrafted puppet satire that ambles through wartime folly with deadpan charm and a quietly bitter edge.

Created by
Stanislav Látal, Josef Henke
Genres
Animation, Action & adventure
Starring
Petr Haničinec, Rudolf Hrušínský, Josef Somr
Overview
Látal's nine-part puppet series completes Trnka's thirty-year-old work on Švejk. He thus completed the adaptation of Jaroslav Hašek's most famous literary work, a tragicomic satire about the wartime adventures of the eccentric Josef Švejk, in a puppet version based on Lada's artistic style.

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Created by
Stanislav Látal, Josef Henke
Genres
Animation, Action & adventure
Starring
Petr Haničinec, Rudolf Hrušínský, Josef Somr
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • war
  • power
  • corruption
  • survival
  • identity
Places
  • military
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • animated
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour7
Realism4
Romance1
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Genres
animation, action & adventure
Created by
Stanislav Látal, Josef Henke, Jiří Trnka
Written by
Jaroslav Vokřál, Jiří Kubíček, Stanislav Látal, Kamil Pixa
Starring
Petr Haničinec, Rudolf Hrušínský, Josef Somr, Věra Kubánková, Marek Brodský, Josef Abrhám, Josef Kemr, Petr Nárožný
Music
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Cinematography
Vladimír Malík, Ivan Vít
Length
1 seasons, 9 episodes
Country
Czechoslovakia, Germany
Languages
Czech

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