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)
