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Director, animator, and screenwriter Jiri Brdeçka made may animated films during his nearly forty-year career. He was born in Hranice, Moravia, Czechoslovakia and educated at Charles University, Prague. While in his early 20s, he wrote a parody of the American West, Lemonade Joe, which was made into a play and later a film in 1964. Brdeçka began working as an animator in 1943; two years later he began working with innovative puppeteer Trnka to make unique animated films for which Brdeçka wrote the screenplays. Eventually he went on to make his own animated films.