Mean Barbara

APPROPIATE

1987 / 16min.

Rating9.3

Genres

Animation

Synopsis

When the village school master discovers the body of a mean-spirited, miserly old woman, with whom he has had a disagreement, he decides to dispose of the body himself without alerting anyone else to it, but when the body is discovered by another villager the same cycle begins again, with the body eventually passing through the hands of half of the village.

Directors

Actors

Jan Werich

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