Mean Barbara (1987)

Cautiously Recommended

Czechoslovakia

Animated Short Film

Original Title: Lakomá Barka

Director: Vlasta Pospísilová

Writers: Jirí Kubícek, Jan Werich

Cinematographer: Vladimír Malík

Composer: Vladimir Merta

Narrator: Jan Werich

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, in Pospísilová’s slightly leaden but generally entertaining animated short film. Iain.Stott