Jiří Brdečka Movies

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

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

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

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

In the Hussite times, religious truth was sifted even on the tips of weapons. When in 1430 the Hussites set out on a raid to Nuremberg, the so-called...

A biographical film about the traveler Emil Holub, conceived as an illustrative story of an exceptional man, who, however, encounters the disinterest...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A spy film about how saboteurs obtain important data about the activities of a key company, while also trying to thwart the plan and undermine work...

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

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...

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...

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

An orphaned young woman named Jana moves into the household of Robert and his older, possessive wife, Klára. While Klára maintains a...