Jiří Brdečka

Escritor, Actor, Director

24 de diciembre de 1917 — 2 de junio de 1982 (64 años)
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.

Conocido por

  • Joe Kolaloca
    Joe Kolaloca1964
  • Nick Carter, aquel loco, loco, detective
    Nick Carter, aquel loco, loco, detective1978
  • The Three Veterans
    The Three Veterans1984
  • El gato de Cassandra
    El gato de Cassandra1963
  • El barón fantástico
    El barón fantástico1962
  • Una invención diabólica
    Una invención diabólica1958
  • The Emperor and the Golem
    The Emperor and the Golem1952
  • The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians
    The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians1981
  • El sueño de una noche de verano
    El sueño de una noche de verano1959
  • El príncipe y la estrella
    El príncipe y la estrella1979
  • Doggie and Three
    Doggie and Three1956
  • El emperador y el ruiseñor
    El emperador y el ruiseñor1949
  • Noches de Praga
    Noches de Praga1969
  • Viejas leyendas checas
    Viejas leyendas checas1953
  • Canción de la pradera
    Canción de la pradera1949

Filmography

1979
1978
1964
Lemonade Joe · as Screenplay
1963
When the Cat Comes · as Screenplay
1962
1959
That Kind of Love · as Screenplay
1959
1958
Invention for Destruction · as Screenplay
1958
Wolf Trap · as Screenplay
1956
Doggie and Three · as Screenplay
1953
Old Czech Legends · as Screenplay
1952
The Emperor and the Golem · as Screenplay
1949
The Emperor's Nightingale · as Screenplay

2017
Universum Brdecka · as Himself (archive Footage)

1984
The Three Veterans · as Story
1983
1981
1972
Straw Hat · as Dramaturge
1969
Prague Nights · as Story
1964
Lemonade Joe · as Costume Design
1955
1949
1947
The Antlers · as Costume Design