Schweik is Preparing For Battle
About Schweik is Preparing For Battle
The film is two stories, "Fashions of Paris" and "The Last Crusader," drawn from Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk. In the first, Czech patriots plan to get a comrade out of a Gestapo jail. They stage a wedding and gather in a local tavern. Švejk, playing the groom, stalls the room with stories about French patriots. The operation works, and he fools the fascists again.
Cast & crew
More about Schweik is Preparing For Battle
Russian Wikipedia credits Klimenti Mints and Mariya Mitina. Wikidata lists Sergei Yutkevich and Mints. The catalog lists Yutkevich. The script credits on Wikidata are Yevgeni Pomeshchikov, Nikolay Rozhkov, Mints, and Boris Laskin. Mark Magidson photographed it. Anatoly Lepin wrote the music. Vladimir Kantsel plays Švejk. Boris Tenin plays Gavar in "The Last Crusader."
Themes
Background
A 1942 Soviet comedy set among Czechs dealing with the Gestapo, using Hašek's soldier as the groom in a fake wedding.
Look
Mark Magidson was the cinematographer.
Music
Anatoly Lepin wrote the score.
Notes
- Nina Nikitina plays Yulka. Georgy Menglet plays the Czech communist Vaclav Reshanek. Georgy Millyar plays the tavern keeper.
- Pavel Shpringfeld plays Waldek. Aleksandr Grechaniy, who is in the catalog cast, plays a driver.
- Nikolai Volkov plays a jailer in the second story. Leonid Krovitsky plays Müller.
Scenes
- Švejk, cast as the groom, holds the tavern with stories of French patriots while the rescue is set up.
- The jailbreak succeeds.
Influenced by
- Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (1942. Швейк готовится к бою.webm)
