Jiří Brdečka Movies

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

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

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 story of a Soviet soldier who was killed during the liberation of Prague in May 1945 combines Zdenek Seydl's animated drawings with documentary...

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

A young aristocrat is madly in love with an inventor, but her parents arrange her marriage to an old army general.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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