Jiří Brdečka Movies

  • 1971
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    There Was a Miller on a River

    There Was a Miller on a River

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    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, they rob and kill him.

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  • 1959
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    My Darling Clementine

    My Darling Clementine

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

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  • 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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  • 1948
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    Šváb

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  • 1951
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    Neviditelní nepřátelé

    Neviditelní nepřátelé

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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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  • 1949
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    Papírové nocturno

    Papírové nocturno

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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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  • 1968
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    The Power of Destiny

    The Power of Destiny

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    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 helpless servant. The surprise ending reveals the reason why the customer laughed.

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 1948
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    Andělský kabát

    Andělský kabát

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 1953
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    O světle

    O světle

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