Jiří Brdečka
Known for: Writing
Born: December 24, 1917
Died: June 2, 1982
Place of birth: —
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.
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Filmography
81 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
6.0
Universum Brdečka
2017
4.8
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
1984
7.8
The Three Veterans
1984
9.0
Das Feuer des Faust
1982
6.0
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
1981NR
An Unhappy Marriage
1981NR
The Outlaw's Wife
1981NR
Unrecognized
19808.0
Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber
1980
6.2
Prince and the Evening Star
1979
7.5
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
1978NR
Love
19781.0
The Double Life of Josef Hlinomaze
1976NR
Closed Due to Illness
1975
NR
What I Haven't Told the Prince
1975NR
Accordion Song
1974NR
The Miner's Rose
1974NR
The Unlucky One
1973NR
The Face
1973
6.6
The Stolen Battle
1972
5.6
Straw Hat
1972
NR
There Was a Miller on a River
1971
NR
How Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser
1970
5.8
Prague Nights
1969
NR
Metamorpheus
1969NR
Historie blechatého psa
1969
NR
Revenge
1968
6.5
The Power of Destiny
1968NR
Why Do You Smile, Mona Lisa?
1966
NR
Forester’s Song
1966
6.0
Joy of Love
19668.0
The Deserter
1965
7.1
Lemonade Joe
1964
10.0
Minstrel's Song
19644.0
How to Keep Slim
1963
7.0
When the Cat Comes
1963
7.0
Spanilá jízda
1963
7.4
The King of Kings
1963
6.8
Incorrectly Drawn Hen
1963
7.4
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
1962
5.5
Ceiling
19628.0
The Frozen Logger
19626.0
Reason and Emotion
1962
7.0
Our Little Red Riding Hood
19615.0
The Television Fan
1961
6.5
Man Under Water
1961
6.5
That Kind of Love
1959
5.0
My Darling Clementine
1959
8.0
Warning!
1959
NR
Why UNESCO?
19598.0
Bomb Mania
1959
7.2
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
1958
5.6
Wolf Trap
19588.0
How Man Learned to Fly
1958
5.0
An Easy Life
1957
7.7
Lost Children
195710.0
Roztržka
1957
6.5
Baton Out of the Bag
1956NR
The Lost Sentry
1956
8.0
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
1955
8.0
Severní přístav
19547.5
Kavárna na hlavní třídě
1954
6.4
A Drop Too Much
1954
6.5
Old Czech Legends
1953NR
O světle
1953
8.0
Velké dobrodružství
1952
7.0
The Emperor and the Golem
1951NR
Neviditelní nepřátelé
1951NR
Mouchy
1951NR
Kašlání a kýchání
1951NR
Začalo to v době kamenné
1950
5.6
The Emperor's Nightingale
1949NR
Papírové nocturno
1949
5.8
Song of the Prairie
19497.0
Love and the Zeppelin
1948NR
Andělský kabát
1948NR
Šváb
19484.0
Parohy
19475.5
The Gift
1947
5.0
The Mischievous Bunny
1947
5.8
Springman and the SS
1946