The Good Soldier Schweik (Der brave Soldat Schwejk)

The Good Soldier Schweik Der brave Soldat Schwejk Modern German DVD Cover Country West Germany Directed by Axel von Ambesser Release Date September 22, 1960 Language German Studio Central Cinema Company Film (CCC) Distributor Gloria Main Cast Character Actor Josef Schwejk Heinz Rühmann Oberleutnant Lukasch Ernst Stankovski Woditschka Franz Muxeneder Kathi Wendler Ursula von Borsody Gretl Senta Berger

The Good Soldier Schweik is a 1960 German film adaptation of the novel The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, directed by Axel von Ambesser and starring Heinz Rühmann in the title role. Schwejk, a Bohemian dog dealer, is living peacefully and contentedly in Prague when World War I breaks out. An arrest for high treason leads directly to his soldiering, which he survives with the luck of the supposedly simple-minded. He is transferred to the front with First Lieutenant Lukasch, and here, too, his mischievous naiveté will repeatedly get him into trouble and out of it at the same time.

The following weapons were used in the film The Good Soldier Schweik (Der brave Soldat Schwejk):

Steyr Mannlicher M1895/30

The Steyr Mannlicher M1895 carbine or short rifle is used by Austro-Hungarian soldiers including Josef Schwejk (Heinz Rühmann). These rifles are clearly post-WWI M1930 Conversions with modified front sights. Some Russian soldiers appear also to be armed with Steyr carbines instead of the accurate Mosin Nagant M1891.

Steyr M1895 Short Rifle (M1930 Conversion) - 8x56R

A Gendarm (Viktor Braun) encounters Schwejk on his way to his regiment.

The regiment marches to the frontline.

Woditschka (Franz Muxeneder) says goodbye to Schwejk.

Schwejk carries his Steyr carbine.

The exhausted Schwejk uses his rifle as a walking aid.

A Feldwebel (Sergeant) (Raoul Retzer) and his squad captures Schwejk.

A firing squad aims his rifle at Schwejk which shows the stacking pins.

Note the hooded front sights.

The right side of the aimed carbines.

Steyr M1912

Wachtmeister Flanderka (Hugo Gottschlich) can briefly be seen wielding a Steyr M1912 pistol.

Steyr-Hahn M1912 (1913 mfg) - 9x23mm Steyr

The Wachtmeister holds his pistol on the left.

He brandishes the pistol.

Schwarzlose M.07/12

A Schwarzlose M.07/12 machine gun is very briefly seen transported by one Austro-Hungarian soldier.

Schwarzlose Modell 1907/12 - 8x50mmR Mannlicher

The soldier in the background next to the stone gate lugs the Schwarzlose on his shoulder. The two grips and the flash hider are hardly visible.

Newsreels

1914

A grenade is used during the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Horse drawnd 8cm Feldkanone M 05 field guns.

Austro-Hungarian soldiers with Steyr Mannlicher M1895 rifles.

1915

French soldiers marching with Lebel 1886 rifles.

Imperial Russian soldiers in a parade with Mosin Nagant M1891 rifles.

A column of British soldiers armed with Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk.III rifles.

1916

An Ehrhardt E-V/4 armored car with equipped Maxim MG08s.

Soldiers during a pre war maneuver with Maxim guns.