Jiří Brdečka

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

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

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.[1][2] 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.[2] In 1943 he took a job as an animator, and by 1949 he was working as a film director and screenwriter at Barrandov Studios.[1]

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.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Boček, Jaroslav (1965). Modern Czechoslovak Film. Prague: Artia. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hemelíková, Blanka. "Jiří Brdečka". Slovník české literatury po roce 1945. Ústav pro českou literaturu. Retrieved August 17, 2012. 

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