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.

• Filmové studio Barrandov
• Mosfilm
• Josef Abrhám
• Rudolf Hrušínský
• Inna Gulaya
• Jaroslav Marvan
• František Filipovský
• Yuriy Yakovlev
• Aleksandr Kutepov
• Nikolay Grinko