Little Otik (Otesanek) (2000) Rating: Starring: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Director: Jan Svankmajer Category: Comedy, Fantasy, Foreign Studio: Zeitgeist Video Subtitles: English Length: 126 Mins. Want to buy?           Surrealist master Jan Svankmajer (FAUST, ALICE) brings a famous Czech legend eerily to life in this darkly hilarious cautionary tale of LITTLE OTIK. An ordinary couple, Karel and Bozena, are unable to conceive a child. When Karel digs up a tree root and whittles something vaguely resembling a human baby, Bozena’s maternal longings transform the stump into a living creature with a (literally) monstrous appetite that can’t be met with baby formula. Svankmajer brilliantly mixes his wicked humor with his subversive politics and love of mythology into a stunning live-action fable for our times.