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Jiří Brdečka is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Graphic Designer, Costume Design, Animation and Dramaturgy born on 24 december 1917
Jiří Brdečka (December 24, 1917 – June 2, 1982) was a Czech writer, artist, and film director.
Born in Hranice na Moravě (then in Austria-Hungary), Brdečka studied at Charles University in Prague until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia forced the closing of the school in 1939. He then became as an administrative clerk at the Prague Municipal Museum (Městském muzeu v Praze) and found occasional work as a newspaper journalist and cartoonist. In 1943 he took a job as an animator, and by 1949 he was working as a film director and screenwriter at Barrandov Studios.
His writing credits include Springman and the SS, The Emperor's Nightingale, The Emperor and the Golem, Lost Children, The Fabulous World of Jules Verne, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, The Cassandra Cat, Lemonade Joe, Dinner for Adele, and The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians.
Brdečka died in 1982 in Prague.
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Born in Hranice na Moravě (then in Austria-Hungary), Brdečka studied at Charles University in Prague until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia forced the closing of the school in 1939. He then became as an administrative clerk at the Prague Municipal Museum (Městském muzeu v Praze) and found occasional work as a newspaper journalist and cartoonist. In 1943 he took a job as an animator, and by 1949 he was working as a film director and screenwriter at Barrandov Studios.
His writing credits include Springman and the SS, The Emperor's Nightingale, The Emperor and the Golem, Lost Children, The Fabulous World of Jules Verne, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Fabulous Baron Munchausen, The Cassandra Cat, Lemonade Joe, Dinner for Adele, and The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians.
Brdečka died in 1982 in Prague.
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Filmography of Jiří Brdečka (18 films)
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Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (1978)
, 1h42Directed by Oldřich Lipský
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Crime
Actors Rudolf Hrušínský, Miloš Kopecký, Ladislav Pešek, Václav Lohniský, Olga Schoberová, Zdeněk Dítě
Rating73%
It is the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The Prague police commissar Ledvina asked the famous New York detective Nick Carter, who is on a visit to Prague, for assistance to solve the strange case of a missing dog. Mysterious murder cases happenen during the investigations, done by the malicious botanist Baron von Kratzmar and his carnivorous plant Adele. Von Kratzmar kidnapped his victims, bound them and whenever he played a gramophone with the melody "Schlafe, mein Prinzchen" (a lullaby by Bernhard Flies but previously associated with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) it is the time for Adele to awaken and eat her victims for dinner. Baron von Kratzmar considered himself a misjudged genius and wanted to take revenge on one of his former professors. He called himself "the Gardener" a notorious criminal, who Nick Carter thought had died in the swamps years ago. With the help of bizarre inventions, Ledvina and Carter succeed in catching von Kratzmar and delivering him to the legal authorities.
Director
Springman and the SS (1946)
, 14minutesDirected by Jiří Brdečka, Jiří Trnka
Genres War, Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Superhero films
Rating66%
A chimney sweep disguises as a Spring-heeled Jack-like figure during the Nazi occupation. The heroic and mischievous black-clad "Springer", with a mask fashioned out of a sock and defying the curfew, is capable of performing fantastic leaps due to having couch springs attached to his shoes. He taunts the occupying German army sentries and the Gestapo before escaping in a surrealistic, slapstick chase across the darkened city.
Scriptwriter
, 1h39Directed by Věra Chytilová
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy
Actors Ivana Chýlková, Jiřina Steimarová, Věra Chytilová
Roles Book
Rating69%
Directed by Oldřich Lipský
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure
Actors Rudolf Hrušínský, Vlastimil Brodský, Miloš Kopecký, Jan Hartl, Míla Myslíková, Jan Skopeček
Roles Lyricist
Rating71%
Un homme mystérieux regarde un écran de télévision où l'on voit deux randonneurs : le comte Teleke de Tölökö et son majordome, arpentant une colline boisée et admirant les ruines d'un château...
Adela Has Not Had Supper Yet (1978)
, 1h42Directed by Oldřich Lipský
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Crime
Actors Rudolf Hrušínský, Miloš Kopecký, Ladislav Pešek, Václav Lohniský, Olga Schoberová, Zdeněk Dítě
Roles Story
Rating73%
It is the turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century. The Prague police commissar Ledvina asked the famous New York detective Nick Carter, who is on a visit to Prague, for assistance to solve the strange case of a missing dog. Mysterious murder cases happenen during the investigations, done by the malicious botanist Baron von Kratzmar and his carnivorous plant Adele. Von Kratzmar kidnapped his victims, bound them and whenever he played a gramophone with the melody "Schlafe, mein Prinzchen" (a lullaby by Bernhard Flies but previously associated with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) it is the time for Adele to awaken and eat her victims for dinner. Baron von Kratzmar considered himself a misjudged genius and wanted to take revenge on one of his former professors. He called himself "the Gardener" a notorious criminal, who Nick Carter thought had died in the swamps years ago. With the help of bizarre inventions, Ledvina and Carter succeed in catching von Kratzmar and delivering him to the legal authorities.
Lemonade Joe (1964)
, 1h38Directed by Oldřich Lipský
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Western
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Miloš Kopecký, Karel Fiala, Olga Schoberová, Josef Hlinomaz, Karel Effa, Juraj Herz
Roles Theatre Play
Rating73%
In the frontier town of Stetson City, Arizona, in 1885, business is booming at the Trigger Whisky Saloon. Tornado Lou, the local chanteuse, regales the saloon-goers with a sultry ballad ("Když v báru housne dým"), while the saloon owner Doug Badman tries in vain to woo her. Two evangelists, Ezra Goodman and his daughter Winnifred, enter the bar attempting to drum up interest in their temperance movement, but the saloon's hard-drinking cowboys scorn them. Into the fracas steps a stranger: Lemonade Joe, a lone cowboy singing the praises of Kolaloka, a non-alcoholic soft drink (in Czech, limonàda, hence the name). His superior gunfighting skill quickly convinces the saloon-goers of the benefits of teetotalism. Before long, Joe and the Goodmans have joined forces, Joe has begun courting Winnifred, and all the cowboys in Stetson City have transferred their loyalty to the cathedral-like God Bless Kolaloka Saloon ("Arizóna, to je pravých mužů zóna").
When the Cat Comes (1963)
, 1h31Directed by Vojtěch Jasný, Ivan Passer
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Emília Vášáryová, Jan Werich, Vlastimil Brodský, Jiří Sovák, Vladimír Menšík, Jiřina Bohdalová
Roles Ecrivain
Rating71%
Le vieil Oliva observe du haut du clocher les habitants de son village de Tchécoslovaquie. Alors qu'un couple de cigognes vole dans le ciel, le directeur de l'école tire et abat l'une d'elles. Il veut l'empailler pour sa collection pédagogique, contre l'avis du maître d'école, Robert, qui préfère qu'on étudie les animaux vivants.
, 1h23Directed by Karel Zeman
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation, Romance
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Space opera, Sur la Lune, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Miloš Kopecký, Jana Brejchová, Karel Höger, Eduard Kohout, Karel Effa, Josef Hlinomaz
Roles Histoire
Rating76%
The film begins with footsteps leading to a pond. The camera continually moves upwards to show the flight of butterflies, birds, and a progression of historical aircraft ending with a rocketship travelling through space and landing on the moon.
A Midsummer's Night Dream (1959)
, 1h16Directed by Jiří Trnka
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Théâtre, Les fées, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare
Actors Richard Burton, Joss Ackland, Jean Desailly, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Hugh Manning, Barbara Jefford
Roles Writer
Rating67%
D'après la pièce de Shakespeare, Le Songe d'une nuit d'été, ce film de marionnettes destiné aux adultes met en scène les trois univers de cette histoire complexe : l'Athènes patricienne, le milieu populaire et le monde magique des elfes et des nymphes.
, 1h23Directed by Karel Zeman
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films, Steampunk films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Miloslav Holub, Otto Šimánek, Václav Trégl, Hugh Downs
Roles Ecrivain
Rating74%
Le comte d'Artigas a mis sur pied une bande de pirates qui écume les épaves voire coule intentionnellement les navires marchands à l'aide d'un sous-marin ultramoderne, lui-même dérobé. Son ambition le pousse ensuite à enlever le professeur Roch et son assistant, Simon Hart, afin de les mettre à son service. Le professeur, tenu dans l'ignorance des projets maléfiques du comte, met au point un explosif très dangereux et révolutionnaire par sa puissance destructrice. Son assistant, lui, a décelé les projets du comte et est gardé prisonnier.
Old Czech Legends (1953)
, 1h30Directed by Jiří Trnka
Origin Tchecoslovaquie
Genres Animation
Actors Růžena Nasková, Zdeněk Štěpánek, Eduard Kohout, Václav Vydra, Karel Höger
La vie des premiers habitants de Bohême illustrée par une série de sept récits légendaires.
The Emperor and the Golem (1952)
Directed by Martin Frič, Jiří Krejčík
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Zdeněk Štěpánek, Nataša Gollová, Jan Werich, Josef Kemr, František Filipovský, Václav Trégl
Roles Histoire
Rating79%
Rudolf is obsessed with finding the Golem. He and his inventor Scotta later accidentally stumble upon him while performing a magic ritual (not as its result). But he does not have the Shem and cannot awake him.