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Jiří Brdečka
Writer, Actor, Director, Additional Credits
Born December 24, 1917Died June 2, 1982 (64 years)
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.
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 1979 | The Prince and the Evening Star · as Screenplay |
| 1978 | Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet · as Screenplay |
| 1964 | Lemonade Joe · as Screenplay |
| 1963 | When the Cat Comes · as Screenplay |
| 1962 | The Fabulous Baron Munchausen · as Screenplay |
| 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 |