Jiří Brdečka Movies

A short film promoting contemporary cosmetic products against the backdrop of an entertaining history of cosmetics.

A careful motorcyclist stops by a cozy pub on his way home to his sweetheart.

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

The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a...

Czechoslovakian cartoon version of Little Red Riding Hood. Here, Red Riding Hood's family finds a way to take care of the wolf.

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

An agitprop piece lampooning a perceived blemish on contemporary society — short notices in shop windows offering a pithy explanation of why...

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 meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

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

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

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...

A grotesque story about the mischievous bunny's antics while decorating Easter eggs.

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

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

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