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