Schweik's Awkward Years
1964 film
- 16 January 1964 (1964-01-16)
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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.
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.
Cast
- Peter Alexander as Josef Schwejk
- Rudolf Prack as Major Ferdinand Hruschkowitz
- Gunther Philipp as Anton Loschek, Profos
- Lotte Ledl as Anna Pospischil, Stubenmädchen
- Hannelore Auer as Helene Hruschkowitz
- Susi Nicoletti as Amanda Hruschkowitz
- Erwin Strahl as Oberleutnant Gustl Wiedenstein
- Rolf Kutschera as Hauptmann Pokorny
- Oskar Wegrostek as Frantisek Schwejk
- Franz Muxeneder as Feldwebel Kotorek
- Hans Unterkircher as General
- Inge Toifl as Gräfin Timburg
- Karl Hruschka as Kratochwill, Postbote
- Hugo Gottschlich as Ververka, 2. Profos
- Dany Sigel as Hannelore Pivonka
- Walter Regelsberger as Oberleutnant Fiala
- Hans Habietinek as Mtula, Rechnungsfeldwebel
- Raoul Retzer as Stabsarzt
- Erna Schickl as Roserl
References
- ^ Von Dassanowsky p.192
Bibliography
- Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.
External links
- Schweik's Awkward Years at IMDb
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Films directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
- Don't Promise Me Anything (1937)
- The Model Husband (1937)
- You and I (1938)
- Yvette (1938)
- Target in the Clouds (1939)
- The Leghorn Hat (1939)
- Bismarck (1940)
- Ich klage an (1941)
- Her Other Self (1941)
- Melody of a Great City (1943)
- Love '47 (1949)
- Abundance of Life (1950)
- My Niece Susanne (1950)
- When a Woman Loves (1950)
- A Devil of a Woman (1951)
- Gateway to Peace (1951)
- The Blue Star of the South (1951)
- 1. April 2000 (1952)
- The Stronger Woman (1953)
- The Dancing Heart (1953)
- The Beautiful Miller (1954)
- Love Is Forever (1954)
- On the Reeperbahn at Half Past Midnight (1954)
- Sacred Lie (1955)
- I Was an Ugly Girl (1955)
- Leave on Word of Honour (1955)
- Winter in the Woods (1956)
- The Trapp Family (1956)
- Queen Louise (1957)
- Goodbye, Franziska (1957)
- Sebastian Kneipp (1958)
- The Trapp Family in America (1958)
- Taiga (1958)
- My Daughter Patricia (1959)
- Jacqueline (1959)
- Ingeborg (1960)
- Final Accord (1960)
- I'm Marrying the Director (1960)
- A Woman for Life (1960)
- Schweik's Awkward Years (1964)
- The World Revolves Around You (1964)
- When Sweet Moonlight Is Sleeping in the Hills (1969)
- Goetz von Berlichingen of the Iron Hand (1979)
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