Jiří Brdečka Movies

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

This melancholy piece about the metamorphoses of love and the eternal dissatisfaction of human beings with what they have was inspired by the lyrics...

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

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

The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial...

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.

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

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...

This original adaptation of Oscar Wilde's sad, socially conscious fairy tale, The Happy Prince, hinges on the conflict between fact and dream,...

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

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

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

Film based on the story by the French writer Gérard de Nerval. A terrifying story that takes us to Paris in the time of the Three Musketeers....

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,...

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

The poetical story, based on a late Gothic song about the serene and fulfilling relationship of two lovers, is expressed through the minimalist...

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