Little Otik

Jan 25, 2001

2h 12m

★ 7.0

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

Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Fantasy

Horror

Animation

Production Companies

ATHANOR

Illuminations Films

Little Otik Trailers

Cast

Bozena

Veronika Žilková

Karel

Jan Hartl

Mrs. Stadler

Jaroslava Kretschmerová

Frantisek Stadler

Pavel Nový

Alzbetka

Kristina Adamcová

Mrs. Administrator

Dagmar Stríbrná

Mr. Zlabek

Zdeněk Kozák

Mladek

Gustav Vondráček

Gynaecologist

Arnošt Goldflam

Bulankova

Jitka Smutná

Young Postman

Radek Holub

Uniformed Policeman

Zdeněk Palusga

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