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Jiří Brdečka
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 fa…
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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.
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2017
Universum Brdečka
Movie Himself (archive footage)
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1984
The Very Late Afternoon of a Faun
Movie Book
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1984
The Three Veterans
Movie Story
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1982
Das Feuer des Faust
Movie Writer
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1981
The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
Movie Story
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1981
An Unhappy Marriage
Movie Director
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1981
The Outlaw's Wife
Movie Writer
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1980
Unrecognized
Movie Writer
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1980
Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber
Movie Director
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1979
Prince and the Evening Star
Movie Story
- 1978
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1978
Love
Movie Writer
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1976
The Double Life of Josef Hlinomaze
Movie Writer
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1975
Closed Due to Illness
Movie Writer
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1975
What I Haven't Told the Prince
Movie Director
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1974
Accordion Song
Movie Director
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1974
The Miner's Rose
Movie Director
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1973
The Unlucky One
Movie Director
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1973
The Face
Movie Screenplay
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1972
The Stolen Battle
Movie Dramaturgy
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1972
Straw Hat
Movie Dramaturgy
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1971
There Was a Miller on a River
Movie Director
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1970
How Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser
Movie Director
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1969
Prague Nights
Movie Story
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1969
Metamorpheus
Movie Director
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1969
Historie blechatého psa
Movie Short Story
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1968
Revenge
Movie Director
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1968
The Power of Destiny
Movie Writer
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1966
Why Do You Smile, Mona Lisa?
Movie Director
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1966
Forester’s Song
Movie Director
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1966
Joy of Love
Movie Screenplay
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1965
The Deserter
Movie Director
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1964
Lemonade Joe
Movie Screenplay
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1964
Minstrel's Song
Movie Director
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1963
How to Keep Slim
Movie Writer
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1963
When the Cat Comes
Movie Screenplay
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1963
Spanilá jízda
Movie
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1963
The King of Kings
Movie Dramaturgy
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1963
Incorrectly Drawn Hen
Movie Director
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1962
The Fabulous Baron Munchausen
Movie Screenplay
