Jiří Brdečka Movies

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...

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

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

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

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...

At school the dunce draws a Picasso style chicken on the black board. The chicken comes to life, runs away, and finds itself in the teacher's garden....

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

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

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

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

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...

This animated precursor to music videos was made on commission for the American company Rembrandt Films. It illustrates an American folk song of the...

A short, humorous history of aviation based on Kamil Lhoták's book "Balloons, Wings, Propellers."

Depiction of Czech students in the 1950s. The kids are less interested in communism than in rock n’ roll. Czech authorities deemed the work...

A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

Adaptation of a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, about an emperor who prefers the tinkling of a bejeweled mechanical bird to the song of a real...

A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective by a "judge" who asks the audience to decide who...

Oldřich Nový was and will forever remain the embodiment of charm, elegance and personal charm for Czech cinema, to which all women,...