About the great Czech satirist Jaroslav Hašek, who was captured by the Russians during the First World War. Not wanting to fight for the interests of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Hašek enters the Red Army and, as a commissar of the international brigade, goes the military way from Samara to Irkutsk.
Jaroslav Hašek
Straslipka
Shura
general
captain
Polivanov
Yakov Sverdlov
brigade commander
Mitka
city head
spy
innkeeper
police inspector
archduke
archduke's wife
peasant on a cart
Yerofeyev
Mefodiy
soldier
red-haired soldier
priest
old intelligent
Hašek's colleague
porter in a hotel (uncredited)
soldier with a harmonica (uncredited)
Hašek's colleague (uncredited)
pub visitor (uncredited)
soldier-observer (uncredited)
english general (uncredited)
baker (uncredited)
Sverdlov's assistant (uncredited)
