Jiří Brdečka Filmes

An animated singing western short in which a cowboy takes on the villain to save his beloved.

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

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...

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

Lost Children (Czech: Ztracenci) is a Czechoslovak war film directed by Miloš Makovec. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.

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

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...

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

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

The film tries to persuade young viewers that they should only watch TV after having completed their duties; it shows them (and their parents) what...

Anti-war animation about man's passions for self-destruction by experimenting with dangerous chemicals.

An agitprop piece lampooning a perceived blemish on contemporary society — short notices in shop windows offering a pithy explanation of why...