Jiří Brdečka Movies

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

A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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