Jiří Brdečka
Jiří Brdečka | |
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Born | |
Died | 2 June 1982 | (aged 64)
Nationality | Czech |
Occupation | Journalist, screenwriter, novelist, satirist, cartoonist, designer, animator, director |
Children | Tereza Brdečková |
Jiří Brdečka (24 December 1917 – 2 June 1982) was a Czech writer, artist, and film director.[1]
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 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 [2]
(born 1952).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[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Boček, Jaroslav (1965). Modern Czechoslovak Film. Prague: Artia.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Hemelíková, Blanka (2007). "Jiří Brdečka". Slovník české literatury po roce 1945. Ústav pro českou literaturu. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
External links[]
- 1917 births
- 1982 deaths
- People from Hranice (Přerov District)
- People from the Margraviate of Moravia
- Czech animated film directors
- Czech journalists
- Czech cartoonists
- Czech humorists
- Czech satirists
- Czech screenwriters
- 20th-century journalists
- 20th-century screenwriters
- Czech writer stubs