A Great Road Ahead

1h 40m

Drama War Comedy

6.5

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.

Cast

Josef Abrhám

Jaroslav Hašek

Rudolf Hrušínský

Straslipka

Inna Gulaya

Shura

Jaroslav Marvan

general

František Filipovský

captain

Yuriy Yakovlev

Polivanov

Aleksandr Kutepov

Yakov Sverdlov

Mykola Hrynko

brigade commander

Oleg Borisov

Mitka

Sergei Filippov

city head

Josef Kemr

spy

Josef Hlinomaz

innkeeper

František Hanus

police inspector

Karel Effa

archduke

Míla Myslíková

archduke's wife

Mykola Yakovchenko

peasant on a cart

Pyotr Kiryutkin

Yerofeyev

Dmytro Kapka

Mefodiy

Yevgeni Shutov

soldier

Mikhail Vasilyev

red-haired soldier

Pavel Vinnik

priest

Yakov Lents

old intelligent

Fyodor Gladkov

Hašek's colleague

Josef Steigl

porter in a hotel (uncredited)

Vitaly Belyakov

soldier with a harmonica (uncredited)

Mykola Talyura

Hašek's colleague (uncredited)

Zdeněk Týle

pub visitor (uncredited)

Vladimir Klimentyev

soldier-observer (uncredited)

Nikita Kondratyev

english general (uncredited)

Grigoriy Teslya

baker (uncredited)

Vladimir Dorofeyev

Sverdlov's assistant (uncredited)

Crew

Yuri Ozerov

Director

Edgar Smirnov

Script Editor

Giorgi Mdivani

Screenplay

Igor Chernykh

Director of Photography

Valentina Kuznetsova

Assistant Director

Vladimír Vlček

Assistant Director

Maks Gershengorin

Executive Producer

Aleksandr Myagkov

Production Design

Boris Volsky

Sound Director

Karen Khachaturyan

Original Music Composer

Emin Khachaturyan

Conductor