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