Svejk Wrecks Germany

Svejk Wrecks Germany (1943)

It started at Midnight

KAREL LAMAČ (1987-1952), who worked in Germany for a long time, was forced to leave for France and then Great Britain before Hitler's fascism, where he continued to direct films. His film Švejk is Destroying Germany from 1943 was created under the influence of wartime circumstances and was intended mainly for a British audience. Perhaps this is also why the tone of the original Czech hero of Hašek's humorous original deviates from his traditional way of portraying him. He transfers him to the wartime reality of the time and, through a series of coincidences, makes him a military servant of the Gestapo commander, which gives Švejk the opportunity to save many people from deportation to concentration camps. Lamač is therefore not driven by the motive of an authorial interpretation but rather by the need for propaganda. This is also emphasized by Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, whose opening words were added to this comedy in 1947, when it was released into Czechoslovak film distribution.

Date of release
1943-10-18
TMDB
8.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 5m
Genres
Comedy, War
Director
Karel Lamač

Casting

Interesting facts

Schweik's New Adventures is a 1943 British comedy film, directed by Karel Lamač and starring Lloyd Pearson, Maggie Rennie, Richard Attenborough and Julien Mitchell. It was written by Lamač and Con West, adapted from the 1921 novel Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek. The music was by Clifton Parker, his first film score. It was shot at the Merton Park Studios in London.

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