Otesánek 2001

Name: Otesánek
Released: 2001-01-25
Cast: Veronika Žilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, Pavel Nový, Kristina Adamcová

Synopsis:

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.

Directed by:	Jan Švankmajer
Written by:	Jan Švankmajer
Release date:	2001-01-25
Runtime:	132 minutes
Critics score:	84 / 100
Tagline:	From the creator of 'Alice' and 'Faust' comes a most unusual baby…