Jiří Brdečka Movies

A satirical agitprop piece on dieting. The protagonist is a man trying to slim down in various ways; his attempts are radical but inconsistent, and...

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

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

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

An ironic anecdote about a fortune-teller perplexed by her customer who laughs at her reading of his palm. According to her, the man is to become a...

Lemonade Joe, The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, Dinner for Adele, The and the Golem - These and other Czech cinematography film hits have on...

Reason and Emotion, personified as two gardeners, are opponents in a landscaping contest (French formal garden vs. English landscape park), but...

Trnka reached new heights of modernist abstraction with this innovative, surrealist mini-masterwork, which critic Jean-Pierre Coursodon praised as...

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

Orpheus reconsidered, starting from animations of mosaic images. Eventually, there is lava.

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

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

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

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...

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