Plukovník Švec - poster 1

Plukovník Švec - poster 1

The film is promoted as "Drama in 12 reels. In the main role Bedřich Karen, a member of The National Theatre in Prague". An assault of the Czechoslovak volunteers in Russia. In the foreground colonel Josef Jiří Švec (actor: Bedřich Karen) with revolver and sabre. Josef Jiří Švec (1883 - 1918) was a colonel of the Czechoslovak volunteers in Russia. After the longlasting fights with the Bolsheviks the Czechoslovak troops mutinied. Colonel Švec, in order to save his army and his honour, took his own life and shot himself. This sacrifice was not in vain. Czechoslovak troops were filled with renewed strength and they finally pushed through the whole of Siberia to Vladivostok and return to their homeland.