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.Von Dassanowsky p.192 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
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Bibliography Von Dassanowsky, Robert. Austrian Cinema: A History. McFarland, 2005.
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