Jiří Brdečka – A Director of Animated Films

Abstract

The Czech director Jiří Brdečka, consideredas one of the masters of world animation inthe 1960sand 1970s,has beenforgotten forthe last thirty years becauseof the unavailability of his films. This essayaims at redressing the oblivion,discussing the inspiration, the styleand the times of the filmmaker, whom we could consider “the ErnstLubitsch of animation.”