Jiří Brdečka Movies

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

At school the dunce draws a Picasso style chicken on the black board. The chicken comes to life, runs away, and finds itself in the teacher's garden....

This anti-war piece presents an exaggerated, satirical overview of the evolution of weapons from a prehistoric club to the atomic bomb.

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

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...

The cartoon film sets out to justify the existence of UNESCO as an instrument for world peace.

One of a trilogy of animated shorts based on Moravian folk ballads.

A fanciful apocryphal tale about the famous Greek scholar, who is determined not to have his mind taken off educating young Alexander the Great,...

A satirical agitprop piece on dieting. The protagonist is a man trying to slim down in various ways; his attempts are radical but inconsistent, and...

Another well-known children's story. Jiří Brdečka made it on commission for his friend, Italian producer Max Massimino-Garnier, as...

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