Colonel Švec (original Czech title: Plukovník Švec) is a 1930 Czechoslovak historical war drama. It was a major patriotic production for its time, focusing on the story of Josef Jiří Švec, a real-life commander in the Czechoslovak Legions during the Russian Civil War.

Colonel Švec (original Czech title: Plukovník Švec) is a 1930 Czechoslovak historical war drama. It was a major patriotic production for its time, focusing on the story of Josef Jiří Švec, a real-life commander in the Czechoslovak Legions during the Russian Civil War.

In the Škoda factory, where they are feverishly rearming in 1914, works the foreman Kalina, the father of the young men Pavel and Jan. Pavel is a supporter of the monarchy, while Jan, on the contrary, defends the idea of ​​our national independence. Just before mobilization, Jan escapes to Russia, where he joins a group of volunteer legionnaires called the "Czech Company", fighting against the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Pavel enlists in the Austrian army. The brothers do not meet again until July 1917 in the battle of Zborov in Ukraine, which marked a successful breakthrough of the Austro-Hungarian front.