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Little Otik

Country: Czech Republic, Language: Czech, 132 mins

Original Title

Otesánek...aka Greedy Guts
  • Director: Jan Svankmajer
  • Writer: Karel Jaromír Erben; Jan Svankmajer
  • Producer: Keith Griffiths; Jaromír Kallista

CGiii Comment

This is insanity of metaphor and symbol.

It is too long - the 'joke' does wear a little thin. But...for sheer imagination - it would be difficult to overtake.

Wonderfully absurd.


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The(ir) Blurb...

When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a stump 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. When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child; but its appetite is much greater than that of a normal child.

Cast & Characters

Veronika Zilková

Bozena

Jan Hartl

Karel

Jaroslava Kretschmerová

Alzbetka´s Mother

Pavel Nový

Alzbetka´s Father

Kristina Adamcová

Alzbetka

Dagmar Stríbrná

Pani spravcova

Zdenek Kozák

Mr. Zlabek

Gustav Vondracek

Mladek, the postman

Arnost Goldflam

Gynaecologist

Jitka Smutná

Bulankova, the social worker

Jirí Lábus

Policeman at station

Radek Holub

Young postman

Jan Jirán

Karel´s co-worker

Zdenek Palusga

Uniformed policeman

Frantisek Polata

Plainclothes policeman