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Classic Serial: Jaroslav Hasek - The Good Soldier Svejk

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Jaroslav Hasek - The Good Soldier Svejk

Episode 2

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Sent to the front in disgrace, will Svejk survive the killing fields of World War I?

Sent to the front in disgrace, will Svejk ultimately survive the killing fields of the First World War? Stars Sam Kelly.

Dramatisation by Christopher Reason of the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hasek that charts the exploits of a WWI soldier.

Svejk and Lukas are sent to the front in disgrace, but Svejk gets waylaid by a gallery of grotesques.

Svejk ...... Sam Kelly
Lukas ...... Adrian Lukis
Dub ...... Nicholas Blane
Choudounski ...... Malcolm Raeburn
Marek ...... Howard Chadwick
Police Sergeant ...... James Quinn
Von Schwarzberg ...... Stuart Richman
Baloun ...... Eric Potts
Lance Corporal ...... Mark Chatterton
The Maid ...... Szilvi Naray Davey
Vodicka ...... Bernard Wrigley

Other parts played by members of the cast.

Directed by Gary Brown.

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Dramatisation of the novel by Jaroslav Hasek that charts the exploits of a WWI soldier

Dramatisation by Christopher Reason of the satirical Czech novel by Jaroslav Hasek that charts the exploits of a WWI soldier

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