Jiří Brdečka

Biography

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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (1978)
2. Ceiling (1962)
3. Spanilá jízda (1963)
4. Universum Brdečka (2017) — Himself (archive footage)

Directed

1. Springman and the SS (1946) — Director
2. Prague Nights (1969) — Director
3. Incorrectly Drawn Hen (1963) — Director
4. The Frozen Logger (1962) — Director
5. Love and the Zeppelin (1948) — Director
6. The Power of Destiny (1968) — Director
7. Our Little Red Riding Hood (1961) — Director
8. How Man Learned to Fly (1958) — Director
9. Man Under Water (1961) — Director
10. Warning! (1959) — Director
11. My Darling Clementine (1959) — Director
12. Joy of Love (1966) — Director
13. Minstrel's Song (1964) — Director
14. Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber (1980) — Director
15. The Television Fan (1961) — Director
16. How to Keep Slim (1963) — Director
17. The Deserter (1965) — Director
18. Reason and Emotion (1962) — Director
19. The Double Life of Josef Hlinomaze (1976) — Director
20. Metamorpheus (1969) — Director
21. Forester’s Song (1966) — Director
22. There Was a Miller on a River (1971) — Director
23. Revenge (1968) — Director
24. The Miner's Rose (1974) — Director
25. The Face (1973) — Director
26. What I Haven't Told the Prince (1975) — Director
27. The Unlucky One (1973) — Director
28. Unrecognized (1980) — Director
29. An Unhappy Marriage (1981) — Director
30. The Outlaw's Wife (1981) — Director
31. Why Do You Smile, Mona Lisa? (1966) — Director
32. How Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser (1970) — Director
33. Accordion Song (1974) — Director
34. Love (1978) — Director
35. Closed Due to Illness (1975) — Director