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
(Story)
O světle
(Screenplay)
Lemonade Joe
(Novel)
Love and the Zeppelin
(Screenplay)
Doggie and Three
(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)
Incorrectly Drawn Hen
(Director)
Our Little Red Riding Hood
(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)
The Frozen Logger
(Writer)
Joy of Love
(Director)
My Darling Clementine
(Director)
My Darling Clementine
(Writer)
Our Little Red Riding Hood
(Writer)
Minstrel's Song
(Director)
Forester’s Song
(Director)
Metamorpheus
(Director)
There Was a Miller on a River
(Director)
Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber
(Director)
Love and the Zeppelin
(Director)
Revenge
(Director)
Revenge
(Screenplay)
The Face
(Director)
The Face
(Screenplay)
The Miner's Rose
(Director)
The Miner's Rose
(Screenplay)
How Man Learned to Fly
(Director)
How Man Learned to Fly
(Writer)
Watch Out!
(Director)
Watch Out!
(Writer)
Why UNESCO?
(Screenplay)
Man Under Water
(Director)
Man Under Water
(Writer)
The Television Fan
(Director)
The Television Fan
(Writer)
Reason and Emotion
(Director)
Reason and Emotion
(Writer)
How to Keep Slim
(Director)
How to Keep Slim
(Writer)
Minstrel's Song
(Writer)
The Deserter
(Director)
The Deserter
(Writer)
Forester’s Song
(Writer)
Why Do You Smile, Mona Lisa?
(Director)
Why Do You Smile, Mona Lisa?
(Writer)
The Power of Destiny
(Director)
The Power of Destiny
(Writer)
Metamorpheus
(Writer)
How Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser
(Director)
How Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser
(Writer)
There Was a Miller on a River
(Writer)
The Unlucky One
(Director)
The Unlucky One
(Writer)
Accordion Song
(Director)
Accordion Song
(Writer)
What I Haven't Told the Prince
(Director)
What I Haven't Told the Prince
(Writer)
Closed Due to Illness
(Director)
Closed Due to Illness
(Writer)
Closed Due to Illness
(Art Designer)
The Double Life of Josef Hlinomaze
(Director)
The Double Life of Josef Hlinomaze
(Writer)
Love
(Director)
Love
(Writer)
Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber
(Writer)
Unrecognized
(Director)
Unrecognized
(Writer)
The Outlaw's Wife
(Director)
The Outlaw's Wife
(Writer)
An Unhappy Marriage
(Director)
An Unhappy Marriage
(Writer)
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)
Taková láska
(Screenplay)
Velké dobrodružství
(Screenplay)
Neposlušný zajíček
(Screenplay)
Kavárna na hlavní třídě
(Screenplay)
Old Czech Legends
(Story)
Old Czech Legends
(Screenplay)
The Gift
(Story)
The Gift
(Screenplay)
Springman and the SS
(Screenplay)
Severní přístav
(Screenplay)
Historie blechatého psa
(Short Story)
Začalo to v době kamenné
(Story)
Mouchy
(Screenplay)
Kašlání a kýchání
(Screenplay)
Neviditelní nepřátelé
(Screenplay)
Incorrectly Drawn Hen
(Screenplay)
Song of the Prairie
(Story)
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
(Screenplay)
Bomb Mania
(Screenplay)
The Emperor's Nightingale
(Screenplay)
A Drop Too Much
(Screenplay)
Lost Children
(Screenplay)
The Emperor and the Golem
(Story)
The Emperor and the Golem
(Screenplay)
The Lost Sentry
(Writer)
Lemonade Joe
(Theatre Play)
Lemonade Joe
(Lyricist)
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
(Screenplay)
Parohy
(Costume Design)