Jiří Brdečka Movies

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

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...

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

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

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...

A picture based on an old folk song tells us a horrifying story about a soldier returning home after twenty years. His parents do not recognize him,...

An absurd slapstick piece about a man immersed in his own dreams, refusing to accept everyday reality. He finds everyone obnoxious, children and...

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

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

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 combined film, or rather personal profile, in which the naive paintings of quirky comedian and self-taught painter Josef Hlinomaze are brought to...

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

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

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

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

A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.