Jiří Brdečka Movies

A monumental piece of art bringing the heroes of the ancient Czech myths back to life. The picture consists of seven parts: Cech the Forefather,...

Czechoslovakian cartoon version of Little Red Riding Hood. Here, Red Riding Hood's family finds a way to take care of the wolf.

An experimental study in black and white tracing the stages of human life through the transformation of a man’s face.

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...

During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved...

Faustus wants to invent a fire that is stronger than all previous flames. Then death approaches him. In order to prolong his life, he makes a pact...

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,...

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...

Film based on the story by the French writer Gérard de Nerval. A terrifying story that takes us to Paris in the time of the Three Musketeers....

A combined film, or rather personal profile, in which the naive paintings of quirky comedian and self-taught painter Josef Hlinomaze are brought to...

On his first day in a new place, waiter Josef Kučera stands up for his old servant Bartoš and bellhop Svát. His actions earn him...

A fanciful apocryphal tale about the famous Greek scholar, who is determined not to have his mind taken off educating young Alexander the Great,...

A grotesque story about the mischievous bunny's antics while decorating Easter eggs.

This melancholy piece about the metamorphoses of love and the eternal dissatisfaction of human beings with what they have was inspired by the lyrics...

The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a...

The poetical story, based on a late Gothic song about the serene and fulfilling relationship of two lovers, is expressed through the minimalist...

In 1757, the second year of the Seven Years' War, Frederick II the Great stands at the gates of Prague. He has been trying to take the city for...

A bachelor named Faun with a Don Juan complex, seized with a hypochondriac's fear of the ineluctable approach of death, enters a race against time's...

Adapting a 1930s song, Brdečka presents a ballad of true love between a miner and his sweetheart in a tale that ends in tragedy.

Another well-known children's story. Jiří Brdečka made it on commission for his friend, Italian producer Max Massimino-Garnier, as...