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.
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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 |
Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | Austria |
Language | German |
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.
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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