Jiří Brdečka Movies

It is a story of three veterans released from the army. During one night spent camping in the country they one by one wake up and meet three elvish...

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...

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...

Lost Children (Czech: Ztracenci) is a Czechoslovak war film directed by Miloš Makovec. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.

An animated singing western short in which a cowboy takes on the villain to save his beloved.

An absurd slapstick piece about a man immersed in his own dreams, refusing to accept everyday reality. He finds everyone obnoxious, children and...

A poor musician with a good heart, as a reward for sharing even the last piece of bread despite being hungry himself, is rewarded with a miraculous...

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....

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

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

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

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 tongue-in-cheek variation on the popular theme of the mysterious smile on Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting narrates the Maestro's...

Anti-war animation about man's passions for self-destruction by experimenting with dangerous chemicals.

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