Little Otik
2001
From the creator of "Alice" and "Faust" comes a most unusual baby…
Directed by Jan Švankmajer
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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.
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- Director
- Jan Švankmajer
- Written by
- Jan Švankmajer, Jan Švankmajer, Karel Jaromír Erben
- Produced by
- Jan Švankmajer, Jaromír Kallista, Keith Griffiths
- Cinematographer
- Juraj Galvánek
- Editor
- Marie Zemanová
- Studios
- ATHANOR, Illuminations Films
- Origin country
- Czech Republic
- Production countries
- Czech Republic, United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 2h 12m
- Language
- cs
- Also known as
- Greedy Guts, Little Otík (Otesánek), Olesánek
- TMDB
- 7.0/10 (151 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 84% Fresh
- Metacritic
- 74/100
- IMDb
- 7.3/10 (7,278 votes)
Cast
Veronika Žilková
Bozena
Jan Hartl
Karel
Jaroslava Kretschmerová
Mrs. Stadler
Pavel Nový
Frantisek Stadler
Kristina Adamcová
Alzbetka
Dagmar Stríbrná
Mrs. Administrator
Zdeněk Kozák
Mr. Zlabek
Gustav Vondráček
Mladek
Arnošt Goldflam
Gynaecologist
Jitka Smutná
Bulankova
Radek Holub
Young Postman
Zdeněk Palusga
Uniformed Policeman
Frantisek Polata
Plainclothes Policeman
Vaclav Jezek
Plainclothes Policeman
Joseph Cahill
Tomáš Hanák
Radio Presenter (voice)
Jiří Lábus
Policeman at Station
Jan Jiráň
Karel's Colleague
