The Good Soldier Svejk (1956)

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.

Released

1956-10-04

Genres

Comedy, Animation

Runtime

76 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Jiří Trnka

TMDB rating

7.3/10 from 13 votes