Jiří Brdečka

Jiří Brdečka 24 December 1917 2 June 1982 was a Czech writer artist and film director Brdečka was born in Hranice then in AustriaHungary 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 Brdečkas work is marked by its droll intellectual humor often featuring an extensive use of hyperbole satire and literary illusions