Jiří Brdečka Movies

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

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....

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

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

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

This animated precursor to music videos was made on commission for the American company Rembrandt Films. It illustrates an American folk song of the...

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...

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

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

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...

The cartoon film sets out to justify the existence of UNESCO as an instrument for world peace.

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...