Like Diogenes, Švejk lingers at the margins of an unfriendly society against which he is defending his independent existence. "Švejking" is the method for surviving "švejkárna", which is a situation or institution of systemic absurdity requiring the employment of "švejking" for one to survive and remain untouched by it.

72 min., 9 r., 2076 m
Studio: Soyuzdetfilm (Stalinabad), 1943
Director: S.Yutkevich.
Cast: B.Tenin, S.Martinson, S.Fillipov, F.Ranevskaya, P.Sukhanov, S.Troitsky,  P.Shpringfeld.

The hero of this soldier's tale, Josef Svejk, escapes from prison only to be soon after drafted into the  military to fight with a German punitive unit in the Balkans during the World War II.  Svejk, without fear or hesitation, is making sure to help the partisans, inventing clever ways of making a short shrift of Hitler.