2000· 132 min
Little Otik (Otesánek)
From the creator of "Alice" and "Faust" comes a most unusual baby…
Comedy Drama Fantasy
7.0 / 10TMDB Score
Summary
When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that it is real.
Director: Jan Švankmajer
Cast: Veronika Žilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Nový, Kristina Adamcová
Tags
19th century literature on screenabsurdismabusive fatheranimated sequencearthouse horroravant gardebabybased on fairy talebased on folktalebased on short story
