Little Otik (2000)
Otesánek
From the creator of "Alice" and "Faust" comes a most unusual baby…
132 min
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.
- Release date
- January 25, 2001
- Country of origin
- Japan, United Kingdom, Czechia
- Box office
- $116,710
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Trailer
Cast
- Veronika Zilková as Bozena Horáková
- Jan Hartl as Karel Horák
- Jaroslava Kretschmerová as Paní Stádlerová
- Pavel Nový as Frantisek Stádler
- Kristina Adamcová as Alzbetka
- Dagmar Stríbrná as Pani správcová
- Zdenek Kozák as Mr. Zlabek
- Gustav Vondracek as Mladek, the postman
- Arnošt Goldflam as Gynaecologist
- Jitka Smutná as Bulankova, the social worker
- Radek Holub as Young Postman
- Frantisek Polata as Plainclothes Policeman
- Tomáš Hanák as Radio Presenter (voice)
- Jiří Lábus as Policeman at Station
- Jan Jirán as Karel's Colleague
- Jiří Macháček
Crew
- Jan Švankmajer · Director
- Karel Jaromír Erben · Writer
- Jan Švankmajer · Writer
- Keith Griffiths · Producer
- Jaromír Kallista · Producer
- Jan Švankmajer · Producer
- Juraj Galvánek · Cinematographer
- Marie Zemanová · Editor
- Jan Švankmajer · Production designer
- Eva Švankmajerová · Production designer