There exist three film adaptation of the brave soldier vejk made in Czechoslovakia (and one animate version). The first two were made before WW II (one is mute). The third adaptation with Rudolf Hruínský is by far the best. The first part called Dobrý vojak vejk deals with vejk's coming to the army and his short hospitalization in a mental house. Then he is assigned as a servant to lieutenant Luká and soon after he becomes a nightmare for him. Luká asks vejk for a dog and vejk steals one, but it turns out that the dog belongs to a high officer, who consequently sends both Luká and vejk to the Russian front. vejk misses a train to the front and walks from Prague to Budweis. On the way he experiences various adventures and in one village he is also prisoned by policemen and regarded as a Russian spy. In the end he reaches Budweis and frightens his lieutanant, who hoped that vejk had died.
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