Jiří Brdečka Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

An experimental study in black and white tracing the stages of human life through the transformation of a man’s face.

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

A fanciful apocryphal tale about the famous Greek scholar, who is determined not to have his mind taken off educating young Alexander the Great,...

A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

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....

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

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...

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

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