Jiří Brdečka Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lemonade Joe, The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, Dinner for Adele, The and the Golem - These and other Czech cinematography film hits have on...

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

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

A short film promoting contemporary cosmetic products against the backdrop of an entertaining history of cosmetics.

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

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