Jiří Brdečka Movies

A hunter goes out to the forest, followed by his lady love. Things do not go well, as documented in song.

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...

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

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

A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

After the flying machines of "How Man Learned to Fly," this next popular science installment by Jiří Brdečka focuses on the history...

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

An agitprop piece lampooning a perceived blemish on contemporary society — short notices in shop windows offering a pithy explanation of why...

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 short animated film based on the American folk song about a logger in the habit of stirring his coffee with his thumb.

A young aristocrat is madly in love with an inventor, but her parents arrange her marriage to an old army general.

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,...

This anti-war piece presents an exaggerated, satirical overview of the evolution of weapons from a prehistoric club to the atomic bomb.

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 short film promoting contemporary cosmetic products against the backdrop of an entertaining history of cosmetics.

One of a trilogy of animated shorts based on Moravian folk ballads.

This story of a Soviet soldier who was killed during the liberation of Prague in May 1945 combines Zdenek Seydl's animated drawings with documentary...

The film tries to persuade young viewers that they should only watch TV after having completed their duties; it shows them (and their parents) what...