Dramatizes, in an official Soviet government release, the rise of the Red Army and the revolution that they eventually won.
TV show based on the novel of the same name by Alexander Pushkin.
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.
