Little Otik

Little Otik (2001)

Otesánek

From the creator of "Alice" and "Faust" comes a most unusual baby…

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.

Date of release
2001-01-25
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (157)
Runtime
2h 11m
Genres
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Director
Jan Švankmajer

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 2 · Nominations: 0. Including: Czech Lion Awards; Golden Kingfisher Award for the best feature live action or animated film

Little Otik, also known as Greedy Guts, is a 2000 surreal dark comedy horror film by Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová. Based on the folktale Otesánek by Karel Jaromír Erben, the film is a comedic live action, stop motion-animated feature film set mainly in an apartment building in the Czech Republic.

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