2000 | Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Japan | Fiction

Little Otik (2000)

  • Czech Portuguese, English 127 mins
  • Director | Jan Švankmajer
  • Writer | Jan Švankmajer
  • Producer | Jaromír Kallista

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

Jan Švankmajer’s affection for fairy-tale characters of macabre tones is present in this adaptation of a Czech folklore story, between Pinocchio and the Little Red Riding Hood, about a couple desiring to have a baby who find an anthropomorphic trunk that turns out to possess an insatiable hunger. The consequences turn out to be eccentric, yet still (very darkly) humorous.

surrealism dark humor fairy-tale folklore macabre
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