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Mean Barbara

Jul 1, 1989
0h 16m
★ 7.8

Overview

When the village school master discovers the body of a mean-spirited, miserly old woman, with whom he has had a disagreement, he decides to dispose of the body himself without alerting anyone else to it, but when the body is discovered by another villager the same cycle begins again, with the body eventually passing through the hands of half of the village.

Genres

Animation

Production Companies

Krátký film Praha – Studio Jiřího Trnky

Mean Barbara Trailers

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Cast

Jan Werich

Narrator (voice) (archive footage)

Jan Werich

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