Jiří Brdečka

Known for WritingBorn 1917-12-24Died 1982-06-02

Jiří Brdečka (24 December 1917 – 2 June 1982) was a Czech writer, artist, and film director. Brdečka was born in Hranice (then in Austria-Hungary) to a literary family, as his father, Otakar Brdečka (1881 – 1930), was a writer under the pseudonym Alfa. Brdečka studied philosophy and aesthetics at Charles University in Prague until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia forced the closing of the school in 1939. He then became an administrative clerk at the Prague Municipal Museum and found occasional work as a newspaper journalist and cartoonist. He worked as a press agent for the studio Lucernafilm from summer 1941 to the end of 1942. In 1943 Brdečka took a job as an animator, and by 1949 he was working as a film director and screenwriter at Barrandov Studios. He began directing animated films on his own in 1958. In addition to his film work he also worked as a journalist, a film critic and a novelist. Brdečka's work is marked by its droll intellectual humor, often featuring an extensive use of hyperbole, satire, and literary illusions.Read more

Movies & web series

Minstrel's Song

Roztržka

Das Feuer des Faust

Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber

The Deserter

The Frozen Logger

The Three Veterans

Warning!

Bomb Mania

How Man Learned to Fly

Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...

Severní přístav

Velké dobrodružství

Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet

Lost Children

The King of Kings

Kavárna na hlavní třídě

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen

Lemonade Joe

The Fabulous World of Jules Verne

Spanilá jízda

Incorrectly Drawn Hen

Our Little Red Riding Hood

That Kind of Love

When the Cat Comes

The Emperor and the Golem

Love and the Zeppelin

The Stolen Battle

The Power of Destiny

Universum Brdečka

Man Under Water

Baton Out of the Bag

Old Czech Legends

A Drop Too Much

Prince and the Evening Star

The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians

Joy of Love

Reason and Emotion

Prague Nights

Straw Hat

Song of the Prairie

Springman and the SS

Ceiling

Wolf Trap

The Emperor's Nightingale

The Gift

The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun

The Television Fan