Jiří Brdečka

22 de ago. de 1958

When famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becom...

04 de ago. de 1978

01 de jul. de 1962

Enquanto o velho Oliva conta a um grupo de crianças sobre sua vida como marinheiro e como conheceu Diana e seu gato de óculos escuros, um estranho ...

20 de set. de 1963

16 de out. de 1964

In 1897, in a castle near the town of Werewolfville in the Carpithians, a slightly deranged Professor Orfanik experiments with his new inventions w...

02 de out. de 1981

A selfish self-centered widowed ruler, barely tolerated by his subjects and called appropriately enough, 'King Myself, First' asks his three daught...

11 de fev. de 1955

The Emperor's mismanagement of his country is provoking some in his court to plot to overthrow him. He feels successful, at least, when he discove...

04 de jan. de 1952

Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a w...

24 de mar. de 1972

A wonderful fairytale about looking for love, defeating evil and learning some valuable moral lessons on the way. The story begins with the young P...

19 de out. de 1979

It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish...

01 de jul. de 1984

A monumental piece of art bringing the heroes of the ancient Czech myths back to life. The picture consists of seven parts: Cech the Forefather, Bi...

11 de set. de 1953

A stuffy middle-aged foreigner, a businessman named Fabricius, lonely and looking for a night's diversion, finds it in the form of a mysterious blo...

06 de jun. de 1969

Adaptation of a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a re...

15 de abr. de 1949

The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a spring from an...

20 de dez. de 1946

A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time'...

01 de out. de 1984

01 de jul. de 1972

The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial po...

23 de mai. de 1958

06 de set. de 1956

At school the dunce draws a Picasso style chicken on the black board. The chicken comes to life, runs away, and finds itself in the teacher's garde...

06 de jun. de 1963

An animated Gothic tale based on Gérard de Nerval’s short story about a young man crossed in love, who asks the wizard Gonin for help and suffers t...

02 de jan. de 1968

An animated singing western short in which a cowboy takes on the villain to save his beloved.

01 de jan. de 1949

10 de out. de 1947

During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the save...

12 de jul. de 1963

22 de jan. de 1954

Trnka reached new heights of modernist abstraction with this innovative, surrealist mini-masterwork, which critic Jean-Pierre Coursodon praised as ...

12 de set. de 1947

This story of a Soviet soldier who was killed during the liberation of Prague in May 1945 combines Zdenek Seydl's animated drawings with documentar...

02 de jan. de 1974

A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective by a "judge" who asks the audience to decide wh...

02 de out. de 1959

An ironic anecdote about a fortune-teller perplexed by her customer who laughs at her reading of his palm. According to her, the man is to become a...

01 de jan. de 1968

A short animated film based on the American folk song about a logger in the habit of stirring his coffee with his thumb.

01 de jan. de 1962

Lost Children (Czech: Ztracenci) is a Czechoslovak war film directed by Miloš Makovec. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.

10 de mai. de 1957

An experimental study in black and white tracing the stages of human life through the transformation of a man’s face.

01 de jan. de 1973

Anti-war animation about man's passions for self-destruction by experimenting with dangerous chemicals.

01 de jan. de 1959

The poetical story, based on a late Gothic song about the serene and fulfilling relationship of two lovers, is expressed through the minimalist ani...

01 de jan. de 1964

25 de mar. de 1954

21 de nov. de 1952

A young aristocrat is madly in love with an inventor, but her parents arrange her marriage to an old army general.

01 de jan. de 1948

A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

01 de jan. de 1980

After the flying machines of "How Man Learned to Fly," this next popular science installment by Jiří Brdečka focuses on the history of submarines a...

01 de jan. de 1961

28 de mai. de 1954

This melancholy piece about the metamorphoses of love and the eternal dissatisfaction of human beings with what they have was inspired by the lyric...

01 de jan. de 1966

Another well-known children's story. Jiří Brdečka made it on commission for his friend, Italian producer Max Massimino-Garnier, as part of a Europe...

02 de jan. de 1973

An agitprop piece lampooning a perceived blemish on contemporary society — short notices in shop windows offering a pithy explanation of why the sh...

02 de jan. de 1975

A fanciful apocryphal tale about the famous Greek scholar, who is determined not to have his mind taken off educating young Alexander the Great, un...

01 de jan. de 1970

A satirical agitprop piece on dieting. The protagonist is a man trying to slim down in various ways; his attempts are radical but inconsistent, and...

31 de dez. de 1963

A short, humorous history of aviation based on Kamil Lhoták's book "Balloons, Wings, Propellers."

01 de jan. de 1958

Reason and Emotion, personified as two gardeners, are opponents in a landscaping contest (French formal garden vs. English landscape park), but ine...

01 de jan. de 1962

The cartoon film sets out to justify the existence of UNESCO as an instrument for world peace.

01 de jan. de 1959

This animated precursor to music videos was made on commission for the American company Rembrandt Films. It illustrates an American folk song of th...

02 de jan. de 1959

A combined film, or rather personal profile, in which the naive paintings of quirky comedian and self-taught painter Josef Hlinomaze are brought to...

01 de jan. de 1976

This anti-war piece presents an exaggerated, satirical overview of the evolution of weapons from a prehistoric club to the atomic bomb.

01 de jan. de 1959

This tongue-in-cheek variation on the popular theme of the mysterious smile on Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting narrates the Maestro's difficult...

31 de dez. de 1966

The film tries to persuade young viewers that they should only watch TV after having completed their duties; it shows them (and their parents) what...

02 de jan. de 1961

Adapting a 1930s song, Brdečka presents a ballad of true love between a miner and his sweetheart in a tale that ends in tragedy.

01 de jan. de 1974

One of a trilogy of animated shorts based on Moravian folk ballads.

01 de jan. de 1981

A grotesque story about the mischievous bunny's antics while decorating Easter eggs.

01 de jan. de 1944

A picture based on an old folk song tells us a horrifying story about a soldier returning home after twenty years. His parents do not recognize him...

01 de jan. de 1971

Czechoslovakian cartoon version of Little Red Riding Hood. Here, Red Riding Hood's family finds a way to take care of the wolf.

10 de mar. de 1961

One of a trilogy of animated shorts based on Moravian folk ballads.

02 de jan. de 1981

An absurd slapstick piece about a man immersed in his own dreams, refusing to accept everyday reality. He finds everyone obnoxious, children and lo...

01 de jan. de 1965

Another one of Brdečka's variations on the topic of love, with unusual protagonists: a spider and a destitute poet who live in friendship in one ro...

01 de jan. de 1978

A hunter goes out to the forest, followed by his lady love. Things do not go well, as documented in song.

30 de dez. de 1966

Orpheus reconsidered, starting from animations of mosaic images. Eventually, there is lava.

01 de jan. de 1969

This original adaptation of Oscar Wilde's sad, socially conscious fairy tale, The Happy Prince, hinges on the conflict between fact and dream, real...

01 de jan. de 1975

One of a trilogy of animated shorts based on Moravian folk ballads.

02 de jan. de 1980