Little Otik

A film by Jan Švankmajer

  • 2000
  • 2 hr 12 min (approx.)
  • 35mm, colour
Still from Little Otik to come.

A childless man carves a baby from a tree stump, his wife treats it as their son, and it comes to life and starts eating everything, then everyone, in their apartment block. Based on Karel Jaromír Erben's folk tale Otesánek, it won the Czech Lion for best film.

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Where to find it

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