---
title: 'The Good Soldier Schweik (1926)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Karel Lamač'
released: '1926-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 86
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'War'
countries:
  - 'Czechoslovakia'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-good-soldier-schweik-1926'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168671/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Good Soldier Schweik (1926)

1926 · 86 min · Comedy, War · Czechoslovakia


## Synopsis

The Good Soldier Schweik is a 1926 Czech black-and-white silent era comedy film directed by Karel Lamač, based on Jaroslav Hašek's novel The Good Soldier Švejk. The first of the Czech films starring Karel Noll, as the Good Soldier Švejk. Of these, it was the most closely based on the original, unfinished novel. Subsequent films continued the original story.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Karel Lamač](https://cinepixo.com/people/karel-lamac)
- **Screenplay:** [Václav Wasserman](https://cinepixo.com/people/vaclav-wasserman)
- **Director of Photography:** [Otto Heller](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-heller)

## Cast

- [Theodor Pištěk](https://cinepixo.com/people/theodor-pistek)
- [Luigi Hofman](https://cinepixo.com/people/luigi-hofman)
- [Josef Rovenský](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-rovensky)
- [Milka Balek-Brodská](https://cinepixo.com/people/milka-balek-brodska)
- [Jiří Hron](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-hron)
- [Ladislav Desenský](https://cinepixo.com/people/ladislav-desensky)
- [Jiří Hoyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/jiri-hoyer)
- [Vladimír Smíchovský](https://cinepixo.com/people/vladimir-smichovsky)
- [Bedřich Vrbský](https://cinepixo.com/people/bedrich-vrbsky)
- [Vratislav Innemann](https://cinepixo.com/people/vratislav-innemann)
- [Josef Šváb-Malostranský](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-svab-malostransky)
- [Jan W. Speerger](https://cinepixo.com/people/jan-w-speerger)
- [Jaroslav Marvan](https://cinepixo.com/people/jaroslav-marvan)
- [Darja Hajská](https://cinepixo.com/people/darja-hajska)
- [Josef Kobík](https://cinepixo.com/people/josef-kobik)

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