Jiří Brdečka
Writing
1917-12-24
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.
Filmography
Universum Brdečka
2017 · Movie
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
1984 · Movie
The Three Veterans
1984 · Movie
Das Feuer des Faust
1982 · Movie
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
1981 · Movie
An Unhappy Marriage
1981 · Movie
The Outlaw's Wife
1981 · Movie
Unrecognized
1980 · Movie
Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber
1980 · Movie
Prince and the Evening Star
1979 · Movie
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
1978 · Movie
Love
1978 · Movie
The Double Life of Josef Hlinomaze
1976 · Movie
Closed Due to Illness
1975 · Movie
What I Haven't Told the Prince
1975 · Movie
Accordion Song
1974 · Movie
The Miner's Rose
1974 · Movie
The Unlucky One
1973 · Movie
The Face
1973 · Movie
The Stolen Battle
1972 · Movie
Straw Hat
1972 · Movie
There Was a Miller on a River
1971 · Movie
How Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser
1970 · Movie
Prague Nights
1969 · Movie
Historie blechatého psa
1969 · Movie
Metamorpheus
1969 · Movie
Revenge
1968 · Movie
The Power of Destiny
1968 · Movie
Why Do You Smile, Mona Lisa?
1966 · Movie
Forester’s Song
1966 · Movie
Joy of Love
1966 · Movie
The Deserter
1965 · Movie
Lemonade Joe
1964 · Movie
Minstrel's Song
1964 · Movie
How to Keep Slim
1963 · Movie
When the Cat Comes
1963 · Movie
Spanilá jízda
1963 · Movie
The King of Kings
1963 · Movie
Incorrectly Drawn Hen
1963 · Movie
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
1962 · Movie
Ceiling
1962 · Movie
The Frozen Logger
1962 · Movie
Reason and Emotion
1962 · Movie
Our Little Red Riding Hood
1961 · Movie
The Television Fan
1961 · Movie
Man Under Water
1961 · Movie
That Kind of Love
1959 · Movie
My Darling Clementine
1959 · Movie
Why UNESCO?
1959 · Movie
Warning!
1959 · Movie
Bomb Mania
1959 · Movie
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
1958 · Movie
Wolf Trap
1958 · Movie
How Man Learned to Fly
1958 · Movie
An Easy Life
1957 · Movie
Lost Children
1957 · Movie
Roztržka
1957 · Movie
Baton Out of the Bag
1956 · Movie
The Lost Sentry
1956 · Movie
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
1955 · Movie
Severní přístav
1954 · Movie
Kavárna na hlavní třídě
1954 · Movie
A Drop Too Much
1954 · Movie
Old Czech Legends
1953 · Movie
O světle
1953 · Movie
Velké dobrodružství
1952 · Movie
The Emperor and the Golem
1951 · Movie
Pekařův císař
1951 · Movie
Císařův pekař
1951 · Movie
Neviditelní nepřátelé
1951 · Movie
Mouchy
1951 · Movie
Kašlání a kýchání
1951 · Movie
Začalo to v době kamenné
1950 · Movie
The Emperor's Nightingale
1949 · Movie
Papírové nocturno
1949 · Movie
Song of the Prairie
1949 · Movie
Andělský kabát
1948 · Movie
Love and the Zeppelin
1948 · Movie
Šváb
1948 · Movie
Parohy
1947 · Movie
The Gift
1947 · Movie
The Mischievous Bunny
1947 · Movie
Springman and the SS
1946 · Movie