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