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Otesánek

Name: Otesánek
Director: Jan Švankmajer
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Animation
Duration: 132 min
Rating: 7.007
Cast: Veronika Žilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Nový, Kristina Adamcová

Directed by Jan Švankmajer

ComedyFantasyHorrorAnimation

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.