January 19, 2009

The Good Soldier Sveijk




Amongst one of my most cherished possessions and possibly earliest, are these postcards from Czechoslovakia from 1977. I was always lead to believe that they were from a film by the master of puppet animation, Jiri Trnka.

Ill be happy to be corrected and even more delighted if anyone knows more. Ive never seen the film, or read the book for that matter. But I do have two rather nice egg cups featuring him!

The story of Sveijk is set in World War I and follows the bumbling soldier as he
attempts to follow orders and impress his superiors invariably lead to catastrophe.




1 comment:

mattb said...

Wonderful web log sir. Many thanks.