Jiří Brdečka
WritingJiří 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.
Known For
Filmography — Acting
Filmography — Crew
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
Screenplay
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
Screenplay
When the Cat Comes
Screenplay
The Emperor and the Golem
Screenplay
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
Screenplay
Lemonade Joe
Screenplay
The Emperor's Nightingale
Screenplay
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
Screenplay
Prague Nights
Director
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
Screenplay
That Kind of Love
Screenplay
Old Czech Legends
Screenplay
Prince and the Evening Star
Screenplay
Kavárna na hlavní třídě
Screenplay
An Easy Life
Screenplay
Baton Out of the Bag
Screenplay
Lost Children
Screenplay
The Gift
Screenplay
Severní přístav
Screenplay
Andělský kabát
Screenplay
Love
Director
Springman and the SS
Screenplay
The Deserter
Director
Revenge
Director
Incorrectly Drawn Hen
Director
Bomb Mania
Screenplay
Accordion Song
Director
O světle
Screenplay
Our Little Red Riding Hood
Director
Why Do You Smile, Mona Lisa?
Director
Wolf Trap
Screenplay
The Double Life of Josef Hlinomaze
Director
My Darling Clementine
Director
Joy of Love
Screenplay
Metamorpheus
Director
There Was a Miller on a River
Director
Velké dobrodružství
Screenplay
Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber
Director
Mouchy
Screenplay
Papírové nocturno
Screenplay
Neviditelní nepřátelé
Screenplay
The Lost Sentry
Writer
Minstrel's Song
Director
Šváb
Screenplay
Das Feuer des Faust
Writer
Why UNESCO?
Screenplay
The Mischievous Bunny
Screenplay
The Power of Destiny
Director
Unrecognized
Director
What I Haven't Told the Prince
Director
How Man Learned to Fly
Director
The Miner's Rose
Director
The Face
Director
How to Keep Slim
Director
A Drop Too Much
Screenplay
Closed Due to Illness
Director
Man Under Water
Director
Reason and Emotion
Director
How Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser
Director
An Unhappy Marriage
Director
The Frozen Logger
Director
Love and the Zeppelin
Screenplay
The Television Fan
Director
Kašlání a kýchání
Screenplay
The Outlaw's Wife
Director
Forester’s Song
Director
Warning!
Director
The Unlucky One
Director