A Great Road Ahead

A Great Road Ahead

100 mins | Drama, Comedy, War | April 27, 1963

About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not wanting to fight for the interests of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Hašek enters the Red Army and, as a commissar of the international brigade, goes the military way from Samara to Irkutsk.

A Great Road Ahead

100 mins | Drama, Comedy, War | April 27, 1963

A Great Road Ahead
About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not wanting to fight for the interests of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Hašek enters the Red Army and, as a commissar of the international brigade, goes the military way from Samara to Irkutsk.
Producers Mosfilm, Filmové studio Barrandov
Original title Большая дорога
Directors Valentina Kuznetsova, Yuri Ozerov
Writers Georgi Mdivani

Cast

Josef Abrhám

as Jaroslav Hašek

Rudolf Hrušínský

as Straslipka

Inna Gulaya

as Shura

Jaroslav Marvan

as general

Yuriy Yakovlev

as Polivanov

Aleksandr Kutepov

as Yakov Sverdlov

Nikolay Grinko

as brigade commander

Oleg Borisov

as Mitka

Sergei Filippov

as city head

Josef Kemr

as spy

Josef Hlinomaz

as innkeeper

František Hanus

as police inspector

Karel Effa

as archduke

Míla Myslíková

as archduke's wife

Nikolay Yakovchenko

as peasant on a cart

Pyotr Kiryutkin

as Yerofeyev

Dmitri Kapka

as Mefodiy

Yevgeni Shutov

as soldier

Mikhail Vasilyev

as red-haired soldier

Pavel Vinnik

as priest

Yakov Lents

as old intelligent

Fyodor Gladkov

as Hašek's colleague

Josef Steigl

as porter in a hotel (uncredited)

Vitaly Belyakov

as soldier with a harmonica (uncredited)

Mykola Talyura

as Hašek's colleague (uncredited)

Zdeněk Týle

as pub visitor (uncredited)

Vladimir Klimentyev

as soldier-observer (uncredited)

Nikita Kondratyev

as english general (uncredited)

Grigori Teslya

as baker (uncredited)

Vladimir Dorofeyev

as Sverdlov's assistant (uncredited)