Jiří Brdečka Movies

Adapting a 1930s song, Brdečka presents a ballad of true love between a miner and his sweetheart in a tale that ends in tragedy.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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