Little Otik [videorecording]

Recommended by: Valerie Mittenberg, Librarian
Call Number: Media/Video PN1997 .O74 2002

From the city that brought us the Golem, comes another frightful tale of monstrous progeny. A childless couple and their nosey neighbors dwell in a cramped old apartment building in a city that could be Prague before the opening of the iron curtain. Oppressed by his wife’s obsessive maternal longing, the husband unearths a tree stump and presents it to her as a surrogate baby. The wife receives the stump with mad glee, and soon nurses it to life. Written and directed by surrealist Jan Svankmajer, Little Otik is an un-sanitized fairy tale that will fascinate and horrify you.