From Hatvan to Halic

From Hatvan to Halic Z Hatvanu do Halice
24 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1954 Puppet animation Audience: adults Commentary: off screen Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio Director: Jiri Trnka Designer: Josef Lada
The first episode of Trnka's film based on a humorous novel by Jaroslav Hasek "The Adventures of Good Soldier Svejk" from World War I. In this story from a small station on the way from Hatvan to Halic we learn how Svejk cheats lieutenant Dub. Lieutenant Dub thinks he has caught Svejk drinking alcohol, which was prohibited. Svejk, not turning a hair, claimed that the cognac in a bottle is actually ferrous water and he confuses the lieutenant so much that in the end he even volunteers to drink dung-water.
All films directed by Jiri Trnka: About the Golden Fish • Ancient Czech Myths • The Animals and the People of Petrov • Archangel Gabriel and Ms Goose • Bajaja • The Cybernetic Grandmother • The Devil's Mill • The Emperor's Nightingale • From Hatvan to Galicia • From Hatvan to Halic • From Putim to Putim • The Gift • Grandpa Planted a Beet • The Hand • The "Hurvinek" Circus • The Jolly Circus • The Midsummer Night's Dream • The Novel With the Double-bass • Passion • Prairie Aria • Schweik's Misfortunes on the Train • The Spring-Man and the SS • Svejk Trouble in a Train • Svejk's Budejovice Anabasis • A Treasury of Fairy-tales • Two Little Frosts All films designed by Josef Lada: The Devil and Kaca • From Hatvan to Halic • Nursery Rhymes • Svejk Trouble in a Train • Svejk's Budejovice Anabasis
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