The adventures of the good soldier Schweik

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Television series
German title The adventures of the good soldier Schweik
Country of production Austria
Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Year (s) 1972-1977
Production
company		 Telefilm AG , Neue Thalia Film and TV 60
length 59 minutes
Episodes 13 episodes in 2 seasons
genre Comedy , adventure
idea based on the novel by Jaroslav Hašek
First broadcast February 6, 1972 on ZDF
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The adventures of the good soldier Schwejk is a television series producedby ORF and ZDF anddirected by Wolfgang Liebeneiner . It is based on the novel " The good soldier Schwejk " by Jaroslav Hašek and was broadcast from 1972 to 1976. Fritz Muliar plays the main role.

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Bohemian dog dealer Josef Svejk in Prague of the Austria-Hungarian Kuk monarchy at the beginning of the 20th century - is a - as one World Wars not numbered survivor who cheats through life. Officially, he is considered an “ idiot ” who reports for service as a soldier when a foreseeable threat of war breaks out. Here he often experiences hair-raising adventures that drive many of the people he encounters into despair.

background

The director Wolfgang Liebeneiner also directed the four-part Advent four-part “ Die Schatzinsel ” . Due to the success of “Treasure Island” and because he was already filming “ Schwejks Flegeljahre ” (with Peter Alexander in the title role), he was encouraged to produce the series.

Fritz Muliar was chosen from the outset for the role of Schwejk. Heinz Rühmann , who already played Schwejk in the film of the same name, gave him great recognition for his role . Muliar himself was also seen in this earlier film adaptation, he played a Russian soldier who befriends Schwejk and swaps uniforms with him.

The first season with six episodes was a huge success back in 1972. Nevertheless, three years passed until the second season with seven new episodes, as not everyone involved was available.

Was shot among others in Vienna and the surrounding area, especially in Krems (which in the series Prague group), at the shipyard Korneuburg (as "Navy ammunition depot Trieste "), and in the wine district (including at stations Karnabrunn and Niederleis to the Korneuburg – Hohenau local railway ). Other railway scenes were filmed between April 13 and 21, 1971 in Gramatneusiedl, Bruck an der Leitha, Parndorf and Kittsee. For this purpose, a train of the Graz-Köflacherbahn with the steam locomotive 56.3190 , an old freight locomotive from the imperial era, and old wagons from Styria was fed.

Sometimes you notice a certain sloppiness in the production of the series, especially when shooting outdoors. Sometimes you can see inappropriate modern platform lights in railway scenes, here and there a car, or in a scene at the parade ground an inappropriate modern football goal in the background. In the recordings made in Korneuburg at the shipyard there, you can see the actors in kuk uniforms acting in front of a modern hall. Also, probably due to the low budget, no tracking shots were used in the first episodes , cameraman Götz Neumann only used the zoom .

Cast and character

actor character Appearance in episodes
1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13
Fritz Muliar Josef Schwejk
Helli Servi Mrs. Muller
Rudolf Rösner Palivec
Heinrich Schweiger Bretschneider
Bibiane Zeller Mrs. Palivec
Brigitte Swoboda Marie
Kurt Sowinetz Field curate Otto Katz
Heinz Petters Lieutenant Lukasch
Kurt Jaggberg Sergeant Wanek
Heinz Marecek Marek
Franz Gary Vodichka
Herbert Prikopa Baloun
Rainer von Artenfels Lieutenant Dub
Robert Dietl Police chief
Harry Hornisch Zwerschina
Harald Serafin Fedor
Gerda Prott Nina
Lieselotte Plauensteiner Dunja
Liane bad luck Natasha
Ludwig Hirsch Horschin
Gerhard Steffen Krakor

Creator of the television series

Episode list

season 1

№ in the series № in the season Director Screenwriter Date of the premiere
1 1 Wolfgang Liebeneiner Eckart Hachfeld , Jaroslav Hašek , Grete Reiner February 6, 1972
Based on the novel "The good soldier Schwejk" by Jaroslav Hašek: In Prague, where Josef Schwejk lives, there is a pre-war mood. This mood is also noticeable in the "Kelch" inn, where the guests are silent when a certain bretschneider enters the restaurant. The meeting between Schwejk and Bretschneider did not go very smoothly either. A few thoughtless remarks and Schwejk is arrested, the landlord is taken away too. At the police station one soon finds that Schwejk should definitely be sent to a madhouse. But even the insane asylum doesn't know what to do with Schwejk, so he is "expelled" again. Now he's back to his passion, selling dogs. When he meets Bretschneider again, Schwejk knows how to give him a terrible "intoxication" and on this occasion sells him four huge dogs. Bretschneider is left to his despair alone.
2 2 Wolfgang Liebeneiner Eckart Hachfeld , Jaroslav Hašek , Grete Reiner February 9, 1972
Based on the novel "The brave soldier Schwejk" by Jaroslav Hašek: Although Schwejk suffers from rheumatism, he volunteered as a soldier. Since he has difficulty walking, he appears with crutches for inspection. Like all simulators - because that's what they think he is for - Schwejk is admitted to a hospital, where they try to cure him with powder and enema with many others. But there too, Schwejk, with his innocent-looking face and naive stupid answers, brings all the doctors to their senses and put yourself in jail. Field curator Katz, who needs a new cleaner, becomes aware of Schwejk at a trade fair for the "underwear" and has him assigned to him. Now a time of self-sacrificing service breaks out for Schwejk, where he often makes a bad mistake and thus brings his master from one inconvenience to the other.
3 3 Wolfgang Liebeneiner Eckart Hachfeld , Jaroslav Hašek , Grete Reiner 02/13/1972
Schwejk is still cleaning the field curate Katz, who is a notorious gambler and drinker and one day loses him to the young lieutenant Lukasch. So Schwejk becomes the cleaner of Lukasch and also serves him with self-sacrificing loyalty and devotion. The first lieutenant soon stated that Schwejk is actually a rare "idiot", but is always reconciled. For example, when he got an annoying friend off his neck and, to the delight of the lieutenant, brought a noble stable pinscher into the house. Unfortunately, the dog belongs to Luksch's superior, Colonel Kraus.
4th 4th Wolfgang Liebeneiner Eckart Hachfeld , Jaroslav Hašek , Grete Reiner 02/16/1972
To his deepest bitterness, the colonel and regimental commander of Zillergut discovered that his dog had been stolen. However, when he finds it in the possession of Lieutenant Lukasch and it turns out that Schwejk did not steal the dog, but obtained it for his lieutenant through a middleman, the patience of the colonel breaks: Lieutenant Lukasch and his boy become a marching battalion the front moved. On the train to Ceske Budejovice, Švejk is involved in another accident: It is said that he pulled the emergency brake and that, to the great relief of his first lieutenant, he has to leave the train in Tabor. From there he was sent to Ceske Budejovice on foot, lost his way, a police station picked him up and he was arrested as a spy. However, the responsible military command considers him a complete idiot and sends him back to his unit in Budweis, where he is initially sentenced to arrest.
5 5 Wolfgang Liebeneiner Eckart Hachfeld , Jaroslav Hašek , Grete Reiner 02/20/1972
Švejk's marching battalion is being unloaded in a small Hungarian garrison town and is temporarily in the stage there. Lieutenant Lukasch uses his boy as a postillon d'amour and thus causes a spectacular scandal in the course of which a street battle between Hungarian and Czech soldiers has to be settled, Schwejk is arrested and the corpus delikti - a love letter from his first lieutenant - is eaten without further ado. Nevertheless, both have become impossible in the garrison and will be sent to the front with the next transport. Schwejk constantly bumps into Lieutenant Dub, a reserve officer who strives to fulfill all his duties 150 percent and finally - on the latrine - a general notices so pleasantly because of his military accuracy that he immediately orders his promotion.
6th 6th Wolfgang Liebeneiner Eckart Hachfeld , Jaroslav Hašek , Grete Reiner 02/23/1972
Schwejk takes a late but terrible revenge on Lieutenant Dub: his battalion is alerted and unloaded near the front. Together with Sergeant Wanek he is sent to make quarters, separates from the Sergeant, gets lost, finds the uniform of a Russian soldier, tries it on and is caught by an Austrian patrol. When put on trial, General Fink von Finkenstein - a judgmental man - pleads for the Russian spy to be hanged immediately. But before that happens, a telegram arrives from his battalion, which says Schwejk is missing and requests him. So the good soldier Schwejk can report back to his lieutenant Lukasch, go to war and finally even keep the appointment with his comrade Voditschka: after the war, at six o'clock, they meet again in the pub "Zum Kelch" in Prague. In the meantime the republic has been proclaimed, but - says Schwejk - one will not be able to do without people like him in future either.

season 2

№ in the series № in the season Director Screenwriter Date of the premiere
7th 1 Wolfgang Liebeneiner Eckart Hachfeld , Jaroslav Hašek , Grete Reiner 02/02/1977
During an attack on the Russian lines, the good soldier Schwejk was accidentally shot in the extended back by his comrade Baloun. While Baloun is hung with the medal of bravery for the return transport of the wounded Schwejk, Schwejk meets the secret agent Bretschneider, who is still active, in the field hospital, who reports the wounded for self-mutilation. Schwejk is to be sentenced to death. Everything was cleared up in time, however, and instead of being shot, he was sent on convalescence leave to Prague.
8th 2 Wolfgang Liebeneiner Eckart Hachfeld , Jaroslav Hašek , Grete Reiner 02/16/1977
Prague during the war days. As best they can in these bad times, Ms. Müller and the street girl Anna try to make their hero's life beautiful. Schwejk tries his hand at various professions so as not to lie on his Marie's pocket. One after the other, he worked in a drugstore, then as a hairdresser. Again he collides with the police and of course with the agent Bretschneider, barely escapes the stalking of a lady named Julia and is finally, for better control, hired by the police to train service and reporting dogs, where he succeeds in To train a dog so fabulously that the police chief can only save himself from being mangled by headless fleeing.
9 3 Wolfgang Liebeneiner Eckart Hachfeld , Jaroslav Hašek , Grete Reiner 03/02/1977
Schwejk really proves to be a good soldier: before Bretschneider's stalking he fled to the military. On the Italian front he celebrates a reunion with Feldkurat Katz, is transferred to the Navy, and guards an ammunition depot so perfectly that it blows up. In the end he himself blows up, with a biplane of the Austrian army and with a Bulgarian brother-in-arms on board, who, thank God, jumps off with the parachute in time before Schwejk can crash land somewhere in Hungary and on dangerous detours to his troops and his first lieutenant Lukasch finds back.
10 4th Wolfgang Liebeneiner Eckart Hachfeld , Jaroslav Hašek , Grete Reiner March 16, 1977
Schweik wants to commandeer a cow in no man's land. However, the latter flees and the persecution does not lead to the hoped-for result: Instead of grabbing the cow, Schweik is seized by the Russians. In the prison camp he meets his friend Marek again.
11 5 Wolfgang Liebeneiner Eckart Hachfeld , Jaroslav Hašek , Grete Reiner 03/30/1977
The prisoners of war Schwejk, Marek and Zwerschina are doing quite well with the Russian peasant for three reasons: 1. There is not too much to work. 2. There is definitely enough to eat. 3. The farmer has two beautiful young daughters. - It is autumn, most of the harvest has been brought in. Fedor Pavlovich has to deliver two of his harvest workers to the prisoner distribution point of the tsarist army. He keeps the farmer's son Zwerschina. A prison camp further down in Siberia is their destination. Before that, Schwejk and Marek get to know Horschin, who shows them how to behave in Russia and what you have to do to get to the promised land of all prisoners of war, Siberia.
12 6th Wolfgang Liebeneiner Eckart Hachfeld , Jaroslav Hašek , Grete Reiner 04/13/1977
Schweik did not stay long in Siberia: Together with his friend Krakor, he had the misfortune to please the camp commandant's wife too much, and so he was quickly sent on to Vitebsk, where he met Sergeant Wanek again and met Sergeant Vanek again and met the attacks with cunning and skill must fight off camp commanders who have gone wild. And there in the camp someone else abandons him: the good old Emperor Franz Josef. The beloved monarch, for whom he so often wanted to tear himself to pieces, fell asleep gently. And everyone is talking about an imminent peace now.
13 7th Wolfgang Liebeneiner Eckart Hachfeld , Jaroslav Hašek , Grete Reiner 04/27/1977
The revolution has broken out in Russia and everything is going haywire. Schwejk and his comrades, Marek and Krakor, have nothing else on their minds than to come home. So they volunteer for the Czech Legion. The train reached its climax during the conquest and administration of the city of Bugulma. Last but not least, it is to Svejk's merit if he and his friends manage to weave their way between White Guards and Red Guards, between the starved and very drunk, between priests and commissioners, always balancing on the tip of the bayonet, all the way to Prague. The victory celebration on Wenceslas Square, the new state of the Czechs and Slovaks has to be celebrated, unites everyone. The informer Bretschneider is also present. Exactly at six o'clock after the war, Schwejk arrives, as agreed, for his rendezvous with Voditschka in the "Kelch".

publication

The DVD with all 13 episodes of the series has been available since November 17, 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Wegenstein uA: Film Festival . In: Alfred Horn (Ed.): Railway . No. 6/1971 . Bohmann Verlag, Vienna 1971, p. 90 .
  2. ↑ Season 1, Episode 1 . TV wish list. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  3. ↑ Season 1, Episode 2 . TV wish list. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ Season 1, Episode 3 . TV wish list. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  5. ↑ Season 1, Episode 4 . TV wish list. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  6. ↑ Season 1, Episode 5 . TV wish list. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  7. ↑ Season 1, Episode 6 . TV wish list. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  8. ↑ Season 2, Episode 1 . TV wish list. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  9. ↑ Season 2, Episode 2 . TV wish list. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  10. ↑ Season 2, Episode 3 . TV wish list. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  11. ↑ Season 2, Episode 4 . TV wish list. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  12. ↑ Season 2, Episode 5 . TV wish list. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  13. ↑ Season 2, Episode 6 . TV wish list. Retrieved July 19, 2018.
  14. ↑ Season 2, Episode 7 . TV wish list. Retrieved July 19, 2018.