Summary 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. View more details
Directed : Jirí Trnka
Written : Jaroslav Hasek Jan Werich Jirí Trnka
Stars : Jan Werich
Genres : Comedy Animation
Release date : Aug 18, 1954
Countries of origin : Czechoslovakia
Language : Czech
Summary 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. View more details
Genres : Comedy Animation
Release date : Aug 18, 1954
Countries of origin : Czechoslovakia
Language : Czech
