Little Otik (2000) ( Otesánek ) ( Greedy Guts )

Little Otik (2000) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Otesánek
Alternate Title: Greedy Guts
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Czech ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
132 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Collectors Edition
Deleted Scenes
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Posters
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2000 and produced in:
Czech Republic ( Russia, Eastern Europe )
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Jan Svankmajer

Written By:
Karel Jaromír Erben
Jan Svankmajer

Actors:
Veronika Zilková ..... Bozena
Jan Hartl ..... Karel
Jaroslava Kretschmerová ..... Alzbetka's Mother
Pavel Nový ..... Alzbetka's Father
Kristina Adamcová ..... Alzbetka
Dagmar Stríbrná ..... Pani spravcova (mrs. caretaker)
Zdenek Kozák ..... Mr. Zlabek
Gustav Vondracek ..... Mladek, the postman
Arnost Goldflam ..... Gynaecologist
Jitka Smutná ..... Bulankova, the social worker
Jirí Lábus ..... Policeman at station
Radek Holub ..... Young postman
Jan Jirán ..... Karel's co-worker
Zdenek Palusga ..... Uniformed policeman
Frantisek Polata ..... Plainclothes policeman

Synopsis:

Surrealist master Jan Svankmajer (Faust, Alice) brings a famous Czech legend eerily to life in the darkly hilarious cautionary tale of Little Otik. An ordinary couple, Karel and Bozena, are unable to conceive a child. When Karel digs up a tree root and whittles something vaguely resembling a human baby, Bozena's maternal longings transform the stump into a living creature with a (literally) monstrous appetite that can't be met with baby formula. Svankmajer brilliantly mixes his wicked humor with his subversive politics and love of mythology into a stunning live-action fable for our times.

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. When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child; but its appetite is much greater than a normal child.

When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife's pain, the man finds a stump 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. When the root takes life they seem to have gained a child; but its appetite is much greater than that of a normal child.

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