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