Svejk's Budejovice Anabasis

Svejkova budejovicka anabaze

33 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1954
Puppet animation
Audience: adults
Commentary: off screen

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Jiri Trnka
Designer: Josef Lada

The third episode of Trnka's film based on a novel by Jaroslav Hasek. In this story Svejk is told to get off a train, decides to find his battalion by walking and loses his way. At a police station he is interrogated as a Russian spy and escorted by a policeman to the district town. However, it is Svejk who accompanies his dead-drunk guard to the district police station and so proves again that the fall of the Habsburg monarchy is irreversible.

All films directed by Jiri Trnka:
About the Golden Fish • Ancient Czech Myths • The Animals and the People of Petrov • Archangel Gabriel and Ms Goose • Bajaja • The Cybernetic Grandmother • The Devil's Mill • The Emperor's Nightingale • From Hatvan to Galicia • From Hatvan to Halic • From Putim to Putim • The Gift • Grandpa Planted a Beet • The Hand • The "Hurvinek" Circus • The Jolly Circus • The Midsummer Night's Dream • The Novel With the Double-bass • Passion • Prairie Aria • Schweik's Misfortunes on the Train • The Spring-Man and the SS • Svejk Trouble in a Train • Svejk's Budejovice Anabasis • A Treasury of Fairy-tales • Two Little Frosts

All films designed by Josef Lada:
The Devil and Kaca • From Hatvan to Halic • Nursery Rhymes • Svejk Trouble in a Train • Svejk's Budejovice Anabasis