Jiří Brdečka
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.
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
(Screenplay)
Lemonade Joe
(Screenplay)
When the Cat Comes
(Screenplay)
The King of Kings
(Dramaturgy)
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
(Story)
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
(Dialogue)
Kavárna na hlavní třídě
(Lyricist)
A Drop Too Much
(Lyricist)
O světle
(Screenplay)
O světle
(Story)
Lemonade Joe
(Novel)
Love and the Zeppelin
(Screenplay)
Baton Out of the Bag
(Screenplay)
Andělský kabát
(Screenplay)
Joy of Love
(Screenplay)
Šváb
(Screenplay)
Papírové nocturno
(Screenplay)
Prague Nights
(Story)
Roztržka
(Lyricist)
Lost Children
(Story)
Snadný život
(Screenplay)
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
(Screenplay)
Straw Hat
(Dramaturgy)
The Stolen Battle
(Dramaturgy)
Prague Nights
(Director)
Our Little Red Riding Hood
(Director)
Incorrectly Drawn Hen
(Director)
Wolf Trap
(Screenplay)
Das Feuer des Faust
(Writer)
Lemonade Joe
(Costume Design)
Prince and the Evening Star
(Story)
Prince and the Evening Star
(Screenplay)
Joy of Love
(Story)
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
(Book)
The Three Veterans
(Story)
The Frozen Logger
(Director)
Joy of Love
(Director)
The Frozen Logger
(Writer)
My Darling Clementine
(Writer)
Our Little Red Riding Hood
(Writer)
My Darling Clementine
(Director)
Minstrel's Song
(Director)
Forester’s Song
(Director)
Metamorpheus
(Director)
Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber
(Director)
There Was a Miller on a River
(Director)
Revenge
(Director)
Revenge
(Screenplay)
Love and the Zeppelin
(Director)
The Miner's Rose
(Director)
The Miner's Rose
(Screenplay)
The Face
(Screenplay)
The Face
(Director)
How Man Learned to Fly
(Director)
Warning!
(Writer)
How Man Learned to Fly
(Writer)
Warning!
(Director)
Reason and Emotion
(Writer)
Man Under Water
(Writer)
The Television Fan
(Writer)
Why UNESCO?
(Screenplay)
Reason and Emotion
(Director)
Man Under Water
(Director)
The Television Fan
(Director)
The Power of Destiny
(Writer)
How Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser
(Director)
The Deserter
(Director)
The Deserter
(Writer)
Minstrel's Song
(Writer)
Why Do You Smile, Mona Lisa?
(Director)
Why Do You Smile, Mona Lisa?
(Writer)
Metamorpheus
(Writer)
How to Keep Slim
(Writer)
Forester’s Song
(Writer)
How to Keep Slim
(Director)
Accordion Song
(Director)
The Double Life of Josef Hlinomaze
(Writer)
The Unlucky One
(Director)
There Was a Miller on a River
(Writer)
Unrecognized
(Writer)
An Unhappy Marriage
(Director)
Closed Due to Illness
(Writer)
How Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser
(Writer)
The Outlaw's Wife
(Writer)
Love
(Writer)
What I Haven't Told the Prince
(Director)
An Unhappy Marriage
(Writer)
Accordion Song
(Writer)
What I Haven't Told the Prince
(Writer)
Closed Due to Illness
(Art Designer)
Love
(Director)
The Double Life of Josef Hlinomaze
(Director)
Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber
(Writer)
The Outlaw's Wife
(Director)
The Power of Destiny
(Director)
The Unlucky One
(Writer)
Closed Due to Illness
(Director)
Unrecognized
(Director)
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
(Story)
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
(Screenplay)
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
(Lyricist)
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
(Story)
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
(Graphic Designer)
Prague Nights
(Screenplay)
That Kind of Love
(Screenplay)
Velké dobrodružství
(Screenplay)
Neposlušný zajíček
(Screenplay)
Kavárna na hlavní třídě
(Screenplay)
Old Czech Legends
(Screenplay)
Old Czech Legends
(Story)
The Gift
(Story)
The Gift
(Screenplay)
Springman and the SS
(Screenplay)
Severní přístav
(Screenplay)
Historie blechatého psa
(Short Story)
Kašlání a kýchání
(Screenplay)
Začalo to v době kamenné
(Story)
Neviditelní nepřátelé
(Screenplay)
Mouchy
(Screenplay)
Incorrectly Drawn Hen
(Screenplay)
Song of the Prairie
(Story)
The Emperor's Nightingale
(Screenplay)
Bomb Mania
(Screenplay)
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
(Screenplay)
A Drop Too Much
(Screenplay)
Lost Children
(Screenplay)
The Emperor and the Golem
(Screenplay)
The Emperor and the Golem
(Story)
The Lost Sentry
(Writer)
Lemonade Joe
(Lyricist)
Lemonade Joe
(Theatre Play)
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
(Screenplay)
Parohy
(Costume Design)
Springman and the SS
(Director)