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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 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.
As director
An Unhappy Marriage
The Outlaw's Wife
Prince Copperslick's Thirteenth Chamber
Unrecognized
Love
The Double Life of Josef Hlinomaze
What I Haven't Told the Prince
Closed Due to Illness
The Miner's Rose
Accordion Song
The Face
The Unlucky One
There Was a Miller on a River
How Wise Aristotle Became Even Wiser
Prague Nights
Metamorpheus
Revenge
The Power of Destiny
Joy of Love
Forester’s Song
Why Do You Smile, Mona Lisa?
The Deserter
Minstrel's Song
Incorrectly Drawn Hen
How to Keep Slim
The Frozen Logger
Reason and Emotion
Our Little Red Riding Hood
Man Under Water
The Television Fan
