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.
Director Yuri Ozerov
Cast
František Filipovský
captain
Josef Hlinomaz
innkeeper
Mykola Yakovchenko
peasant on a cart
Pyotr Kiryutkin
Yerofeyev
Yakov Lents
old intelligent
Yuriy Yakovlev
Polivanov
Mykola Hrynko
brigade commander
Oleg Borisov
Mitka
Míla Myslíková
archduke's wife
Pavel Vinnik
priest
Jaroslav Marvan
general
Aleksandr Kutepov
Yakov Sverdlov
Josef Kemr
spy
František Hanus
police inspector
Yevgeni Shutov
soldier
Irina Shalyapina-Baksheyeva
Josef Abrhám
Jaroslav Hašek
Rudolf Hrušínský
Straslipka
Inna Gulaya
Shura
Sergei Filippov
city head
Dmytro Kapka
Mefodiy
Karel Effa
archduke
Vladimir Dorofeyev
Sverdlov's assistant (uncredited)
Vitaly Belyakov
soldier with a harmonica (uncredited)
Nikita Kondratyev
english general (uncredited)