| Jiří Brdečka | |
| Birth Date: | 24 December 1917 |
| Death Place: | , Czechoslovakia |
| 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]
Brdečka was born in Hranice (then in Austria-Hungary) 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.[2] 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.[2]
He had one daughter, the writer and film critic (born 1952).[2]
Brdečka died in 1982 in Prague.