Jiří Brdečka Movies

  • 1961
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    Our Little Red Riding Hood

    Our Little Red Riding Hood

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    Czechoslovakian cartoon version of Little Red Riding Hood. Here, Red Riding Hood's family finds a way to take care of the wolf.

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  • 1964
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    Minstrel's Song

    Minstrel's Song

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

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  • 1975
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    Closed Due to Illness

    Closed Due to Illness

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

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  • 1961
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    Man Under Water

    Man Under Water

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    After the flying machines of "How Man Learned to Fly," this next popular science installment by Jiří Brdečka focuses on the history of submarines and deep sea exploration, denouncing the arms industry along the way, as the politics of the day required.

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  • 1961
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    The Television Fan

    The Television Fan

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    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 the world would look like if everyone watched TV instead of working.

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  • 1962
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    The Frozen Logger

    The Frozen Logger

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

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  • 1959
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    Watch Out!

    Watch Out!

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

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  • 2017
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    Universum Brdečka

    Universum Brdečka

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    Lemonade Joe, The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, Dinner for Adele, The and the Golem - These and other Czech cinematography film hits have on thing in common: Jirí Brdecka. The Screenwriter, writer and cartoonist Brdecka was known in Czechoslovakia for his cooperation with Jirí Trnka, Jan...

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  • 1976
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    The Double Life of Josef Hlinomaze

    The Double Life of Josef Hlinomaze

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    A combined film, or rather personal profile, in which the naive paintings of quirky comedian and self-taught painter Josef Hlinomaze are brought to life, accompanied by the protagonist's humorous commentary.

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  • 1949
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    Papírové nocturno

    Papírové nocturno

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  • 1962
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    Reason and Emotion

    Reason and Emotion

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

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  • 1978
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    Love

    Love

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    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 room, until a girl turns up with whom the man falls in love. Overnight, the spider weaves a delicate pair of stockings for her, but earns no gratitude.

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  • 1975
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    What I Haven't Told the Prince

    What I Haven't Told the Prince

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    This original adaptation of Oscar Wilde's sad, socially conscious fairy tale, The Happy Prince, hinges on the conflict between fact and dream, reality and poetry. The contrast is reinforced by the film's visuals, confronting modern art with Gustave Doré's old engravings.

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  • 1965
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    The Deserter

    The Deserter

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    An absurd slapstick piece about a man immersed in his own dreams, refusing to accept everyday reality. He finds everyone obnoxious, children and lovers not excepted, and decides to fly off to the planet of his dreams. He turns into a spaceship and manages to land on "his" star — only to find a...

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  • 1956
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    The Lost Sentry

    The Lost Sentry

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  • 1953
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    O světle

    O světle

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  • 1980
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    Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber

    Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber

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    A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

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  • 1966
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    Forester’s Song

    Forester’s Song

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

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  • 1981
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    The Outlaw's Wife

    The Outlaw's Wife

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

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  • 1974
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    The Miner's Rose

    The Miner's Rose

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

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