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