Jiří Brdečka
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.
Filmography
Universum Brdečka
Himself (archive footage)
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
The Three Veterans
Das Feuer des Faust
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
Prince and the Evening Star
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet
The Stolen Battle
Straw Hat
There Was a Miller on a River
How Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser
Prague Nights
Metamorpheus
Revenge
The Power of Destiny
Forester’s Song
Joy of Love
Lemonade Joe
Minstrel's Song
When the Cat Comes
Spanilá jízda
The King of Kings
Incorrectly Drawn Hen
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
Ceiling
Our Little Red Riding Hood
Man Under Water
That Kind of Love
My Darling Clementine
Warning!
Why UNESCO?
The Fabulous World of Jules Verne
Wolf Trap
An Easy Life
Lost Children
Baton Out of the Bag
Once Upon a Time, There Was a King...
Severní přístav
A Drop Too Much
Old Czech Legends
Velké dobrodružství
The Emperor and the Golem
The Emperor's Nightingale
Song of the Prairie
The Mischievous Bunny
Springman and the SS