Schweik's Awkward Years

Schweik's Awkward Years
Directed byWolfgang Liebeneiner
Written byGéza von Cziffra
Heinz Pauck
Based onThe Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek
Produced byHerbert Gruber
Karl Schwetter
StarringPeter Alexander
Rudolf Prack
Gunther Philipp
CinematographyFriedl Behn-Grund
Edited byArnfried Heyne
Music byJohannes Fehring
Production
companies
Herbert Gruber Produktion
Sascha Film
Distributed byGloria Film
Release date
  • 16 January 1964 (1964-01-16)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryAustria
LanguageGerman

Schweik's Awkward Years or Schweik's Years of Indiscretion (German: Schwejk's Flegeljahre) is a 1964 Austrian comedy film directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner and starring Peter Alexander, Rudolf Prack and Gunther Philipp.[1] It is based on the novel The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek.

It was shot at the Rosenhügel Studios in Vienna. The film's sets were designed by the art directors Fritz Jüptner-Jonstorff and Alexander Sawczynski.

Synopsis

Shortly before the First World War, the son of a Prague butcher is called up for military service in the Austro-Hungarian Army of Emperor Franz Joseph, proving to be a very incompetent recruit.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Von Dassanowsky p.192

Bibliography

  • Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.


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