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Jiří Brdečka (24 December 1917 – 2 June 1982) was a Czech writer, artist, and film director.[1]

Jiří Brdečka
Born	(1917-12-24)24 December 1917 Hranice, Moravia, Austria-Hungary
Died	2 June 1982(1982-06-02) (aged 64) Prague
Nationality	Czech
Occupation	Journalist, screenwriter, novelist, satirist, cartoonist, designer, animator, director
Children	Tereza Brdečková

Life

Brdečka was born in Hranice (then in Austria-Hungary)[1] to a literary family; his father, Otakar Brdečka (1881 – 1930), wrote under the pseudonym Alfa.[2] Brdečka studied philosophy and aesthetics at Charles University in Prague until the German occupation of Czechoslovakia forced the closing of the school in 1939.[1][2] He then became an administrative clerk at the Prague Municipal Museum and found occasional work as a newspaper journalist and cartoonist.[2] He worked as a press agent for the studio Lucernafilm [cs] from summer 1941 to the end of 1942.[2] In 1943 Brdečka took a job as an animator, and by 1949 he was working as a film director and screenwriter at Barrandov Studios.[1] He began directing animated films on his own in 1958.[2] 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.[2]

He had one daughter, the writer and film critic Tereza Brdečková [cs] (born 1952).[2]

Brdečka died in 1982 in Prague.[2]

Selected Filmography

Director

• Wedding in the Coral Sea (1944)
• Springman and the SS (1946)

Screenwriter

• Springman and the SS (1946)
• The Emperor's Nightingale (1948)
• The Emperor and the Golem (1951)
• Old Czech Legends (1951)
• Lost Children (1956)
• The Fabulous World of Jules Verne (1958)
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959)
• The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961)
• The Cassandra Cat (1963)
• Lemonade Joe (1964)
• Dinner for Adele (1977)
• The Prince and the Evening Star (1979)
• The Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians (1981)

References

External links

• Jiří Brdečka at IMDb
• Essay on Jiří Brdečka by Gene Deitch

На других языках

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[ru] Брдечка, Иржи

Иржи Брдечка (чеш. Jiří Brdečka; 24 декабря 1917, Границе-на-Мораве, Австро-Венгрия, ныне район Пшеров, Оломоуцкий край, Чехия) — 2 июня 1982, Прага) — чешский писатель, журналист, сценарист, сатирик, художник-карикатурист, аниматор, режиссёр.

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