Schweik's Awkward Years

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Schweik's Awkward Years
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Directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Written by Géza von Cziffra
Heinz Pauck
Based on The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hasek
Produced by Herbert Gruber
Karl Schwetter
Starring Peter Alexander
Rudolf Prack
Gunther Philipp
Cinematography Friedl Behn-Grund
Edited by Arnfried Heyne
Music by Johannes Fehring
Production
companies
Herbert Gruber Produktion
Sascha Film
Distributed by Gloria Film
Release date
  • 16 January 1964 (1964-01-16)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryAustria
Language German

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.

Contents

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.

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References

  1. Von Dassanowsky p.192

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