CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
Menu
Research dossier · Arts & Letters

Who's That Soldier?

1987 Czechoslovak comedy film

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
Arts and lettersInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ7997063 ↗
Source-derived summary

Who's That Soldier? (Czech: Copak je to za vojáka...) is a Czech comedy film directed by Petr Tuček. It was released in 1987.

Cast

Jiří Langmajer as Milan Kouba

Karel Roden as Captain Tůma

Veronika Gajerová as Vlasta

Václav Čížkovský as Sany

Pavel Hejlík as Šlapetka

Ivo Helikar as Honza

Miriam Hynková as Grandmother

Vítězslav Jandák as Major Průcha

Tomás Karger as Trunacek

Michal Kocourek

Jan Kraus as Soldier

Jan Kuželka

Daniel Landa as Soldier

Vlasta Mészárosová as Lenka

External links

Who's That Soldier?

Editorial summary

“Who's That Soldier?” enters the record as 1987 Czechoslovak comedy film. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Who's, Soldier and Czechoslovak can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Who's, Soldier and Czechoslovak.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Who's That Soldier?” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Who's, Soldier and Czechoslovak provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7997063. The first chronological checks are 1987.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Who's That Soldier?”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Who's That Soldier? primary sources, Who's That Soldier? archive and Who's research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Who's That Soldier?”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Who's That Soldier?” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.