Little Otik

(2001)

★ 7 IMDb · 154 votes

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Year: 2001

Runtime: 132 мин

Country: Czech Republic, United Kingdom

Director: Jan Švankmajer

Cast: Veronika Žilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Nový, Kristina Adamcová, Dagmar Stríbrná, Zdeněk Kozák, Gustav Vondráček, Arnošt Goldflam, Jitka Smutná

Plot

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 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.