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