Jiří Brdečka Filmes

The title of this highly-regarded Czech drama translates as Wolf Trap. Set in the 1920s, the story revolves around an ambitious young provincial...

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

This story of a Soviet soldier who was killed during the liberation of Prague in May 1945 combines Zdenek Seydl's animated drawings with documentary...

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,...

At school the dunce draws a Picasso style chicken on the black board. The chicken comes to life, runs away, and finds itself in the teacher's garden....

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

A meat-eating monarch marries a vegetarian princess.

During his work assignment in Tamani Kingdom, Czech worker Lojza saves a local man from dying in the desert. Two years later, it turns out the saved...

A student commits suicide out of unhappy love to a married man; story is recounted in retrospective by a "judge" who asks the audience to decide who...

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

After the flying machines of "How Man Learned to Fly," this next popular science installment by Jiří Brdečka focuses on the history...

The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a...

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...

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

Film based on the story by the French writer Gérard de Nerval. A terrifying story that takes us to Paris in the time of the Three Musketeers....

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

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