Jiří Brdečka Movies

An animated singing western short in which a cowboy takes on the villain to save his beloved.

The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a...

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

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....

Lost Children (Czech: Ztracenci) is a Czechoslovak war film directed by Miloš Makovec. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.

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

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

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...

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

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

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

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