Jiří Brdečka Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lemonade Joe, The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, Dinner for Adele, The and the Golem - These and other Czech cinematography film hits have on...

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

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

This anti-war piece presents an exaggerated, satirical overview of the evolution of weapons from a prehistoric club to the atomic bomb.

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...

A story from the lives of Prague university students.

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

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...