
Writing
Born December 24, 1917
Jiří Brdečka (24 December 1917 – 2 June 1982) was a Czech writer, artist, and film director. Brdečka was born in Hranice (then in Austria-Hungary) to a literary family, as his father, Otakar Brdečka (1881 – 1930), was a writer under the pseudonym Alfa. Brdečka studied philosophy and aesthetics at Charles University in Prague until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia forced the closing of the school in 1939. He then became an administrative clerk at the Prague Municipal Museum and found occasional work as a newspaper journalist and cartoonist. He worked as a press agent for the studio Lucernafilm from summer 1941 to the end of 1942. In 1943 Brdečka took a job as an animator, and by 1949 he was working as a film director and screenwriter at Barrandov Studios. He began directing animated films on his own in 1958. In addition to his film work he also worked as a journalist, a film critic and a novelist. Brdečka's work is marked by its droll intellectual humor, often featuring an extensive use of hyperbole, satire, and literary illusions.
An Unhappy Marriage
1981
The Outlaw's Wife
1981
Unrecognized
1980
Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber
1980
Love
1978
The Double Life of Josef Hlinomaze
1976
Closed Due to Illness
1975
What I Haven't Told the Prince
1975
Accordion Song
1974
The Miner's Rose
1974
The Unlucky One
1973
The Face
1973

There Was a Miller on a River
1971

How Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser
1970

Prague Nights
1969

Metamorpheus
1969

Revenge
1968

The Power of Destiny
1968
Why Do You Smile, Mona Lisa?
1966

Forester’s Song
1966

Joy of Love
1966
The Deserter
1965

Minstrel's Song
1964
How to Keep Slim
1963

Incorrectly Drawn Hen
1963
The Frozen Logger
1962
Reason and Emotion
1962

Our Little Red Riding Hood
1961
The Television Fan
1961

Man Under Water
1961

My Darling Clementine
1959

Warning!
1959
How Man Learned to Fly
1958
Love and the Zeppelin
1948

Springman and the SS
1946