Jiří Brdečka


Jiří Brdečka was a Czech writer, artist, and film director.

Life

Brdečka was born in Hranice to a literary family; his father, Otakar Brdečka, wrote 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 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.
He had one daughter, the writer and film critic .
Brdečka died in 1982 in Prague.

Selected Filmography

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