Jiří Brdečka Movies

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

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

A grotesque story about the mischievous bunny's antics while decorating Easter eggs.

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

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

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

A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

A fanciful apocryphal tale about the famous Greek scholar, who is determined not to have his mind taken off educating young Alexander the Great,...

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

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

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

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

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

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,...