Jiří Brdečka Movies

An animated Gothic tale based on Gérard de Nerval’s short story about a young man crossed in love, who asks the wizard Gonin for help...

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...

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

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 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...

Another well-known children's story. Jiří Brdečka made it on commission for his friend, Italian producer Max Massimino-Garnier, as...

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

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...

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

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...

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