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.

Drama War Comedy

Josef Abrhám

(Jaroslav Hašek)

Rudolf Hrušínský

(Straslipka)

Inna Gulaya

(Shura)

Jaroslav Marvan

(general)

František Filipovský

(captain)

Yuriy Yakovlev

(Polivanov)

Aleksandr Kutepov

(Yakov Sverdlov)

Nikolay Grinko

(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)

Dmitriy 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))