Jiří Brdečka Movies

At school the dunce draws a Picasso style chicken on the black board. The chicken comes to life, runs away, and finds itself in the teacher's garden....

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

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

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