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In The Great Soldier Svejk, famous Czech author and anarchist Jaroslav Hasek mixed sharp satire and amazing wordplay in a hilariously subversive representation of the futility of conflict. Good natured and garrulous, Svejk becomes the Austrian army’s many faithful Czech gift when he's called-up to the outbreak of World-War I—although his bumbling efforts to make the journey to the leading function simply to stop him from achieving it. Getting drunk and handmade cards, he employs all his genial and cunning subterfuge to cope with law enforcement, clergy, and officials who chivy him toward fight. Cecil Parrott’s lively interpretation delivers the amazing irreverence of the classic in regards to a hapless Everyman captured in a huge bureaucratic machine.