Jiří Brdečka

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Jiří Brdečka

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 the world would look like if everyone watched TV instead of working.

Člověk pod vodou

Jiří Brdečka, Ladislav Čapek

After the flying machines of "How Man Learned to Fly," this next popular science installment by Jiří Brdečka focuses on the history of submarines and deep sea exploration, denouncing the arms industry along the way, as the politics of the day required.

Smolíček

Jiří Brdečka

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

Jak se moudrý Aristoteles stal ještě moudřejším

Jiří Brdečka

A fanciful apocryphal tale about the famous Greek scholar, who is determined not to have his mind taken off educating young Alexander the Great, until Cupid makes him succumb to the temptations of a light-hearted young woman.

Jak se člověk naučil létat

Jiří Brdečka

Otakar Brousek, Miroslav Horníček

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

Jsouc na řece mlynář jeden

Jiří Brdečka

Miloš Kopecký, Ivan Lukeš

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, they rob and kill him.

Špatně namalovaná slepice

Jiří Brdečka

Jaroslav Mareš, Antonín Jedlička

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 garden. The teacher thinks he has discovered a new species and christens it with his own name.

Pomsta

Jiří Brdečka

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 the consequences.

Pozor!

Jiří Brdečka

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

Láááska!

Jiří Brdečka

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 room, until a girl turns up with whom the man falls in love. Overnight, the spider weaves a delicate pair of stockings for her, but earns no gratitude.

Zrmzlý dřevař

Jiří Brdečka

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

Co jsem princi neřekla

Jiří Brdečka

This original adaptation of Oscar Wilde's sad, socially conscious fairy tale, The Happy Prince, hinges on the conflict between fact and dream, reality and poetry. The contrast is reinforced by the film's visuals, confronting modern art with Gustave Doré's old engravings.

Vzducholoď a láska

Jiří Brdečka

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

Pražské noci

Evald Schorm, Jiří Brdečka

Milena Dvorská, Miloš Kopecký

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 blonde. In an abandoned cemetery, she tells him three tales involving black magic and erotic obsession. In "The Last Golem," a young rabbi struggles to fashion a massive, silent giant out of living clay — until he's distracted by a mute servant girl. In the second episode, "Bread Slippers," an 18th-century countess indulges her passion for sweet cakes, adulterous affairs, and secret kisses with pretty maids until a mysterious visitor whisks her away to an abandoned mansion, where Fate has a different kind of dance in store for her. And in the final story, "Poisoned Poisoner," a ravishing murderess in the Middle Ages dispatches lecherous merchants to the tune of upbeat '60s Czech pop songs.

Proč se usmíváš, Mono Liso?

Jiří Brdečka

This tongue-in-cheek variation on the popular theme of the mysterious smile on Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting narrates the Maestro's difficulties in trying to make his apathetic bourgeois model smile. In the end, the handsome youth Andrea comes to the rescue.

Metamorfeus

Jiří Brdečka

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