Schweik's Awkward Years

Schweik's Awkward Years
Schweik's Awkward Years
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

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.

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.