Otesanek

Otesánek, also known as Little Otik or Greedy Guts, is a 2000 surrealist film by Czech couple Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová. The movie is a comedic live action, stop motion-animated feature film set mainly in a poor apartment building in the Czech Republic. Karel Horák (Jan Hartl) and Božena Horáková (Veronika Žilková) are a childless couple and for medical reasons are doomed to remain so. While on vacation with their neighbors at a house ... more

Otesánek, also known as Little Otik or Greedy Guts, is a 2000 surrealist film by Czech couple Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová. The movie is a comedic live action, stop motion-animated feature film set mainly in a poor apartment building in the Czech Republic. Karel Horák (Jan Hartl) and Božena Horáková (Veronika Žilková) are a childless couple and for medical reasons are doomed to remain so. While on vacation with their neighbors at a house in the country, Karel decides to buy the house at the suggestion of his neighbor. When he is fixing up the house, he digs up a tree stump that looks vaguely like a baby. He spends the rest of the evening cleaning it up and then presents it to his wife. She names the stump Otík and starts to treat it like a real baby. She then works out a plan to fake her pregnancy and becoming more and more impatient she speeds up the process and 'gives birth' one month early. Otík comes alive and has an insatiable appetite. Alžbětka (Kristina Adamcová), the... less