Jiří Brdečka Movies

A short animated film based on the American folk song about a logger in the habit of stirring his coffee with his thumb.

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

Trnka reached new heights of modernist abstraction with this innovative, surrealist mini-masterwork, which critic Jean-Pierre Coursodon praised as...

A careful motorcyclist stops by a cozy pub on his way home to his sweetheart.

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

This melancholy piece about the metamorphoses of love and the eternal dissatisfaction of human beings with what they have was inspired by the lyrics...

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

Lemonade Joe, The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians, Dinner for Adele, The and the Golem - These and other Czech cinematography film hits have on...

A short, humorous history of aviation based on Kamil Lhoták's book "Balloons, Wings, Propellers."

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

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 animated precursor to music videos was made on commission for the American company Rembrandt Films. It illustrates an American folk song of the...

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...

Czechoslovakian cartoon version of Little Red Riding Hood. Here, Red Riding Hood's family finds a way to take care of the wolf.