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Mean Barbara

Mean Barbara

Genres

Animation

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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.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Czech

Runtime

16 mins

Rating

7.75/10

Release Date

01 July 1989

Country

Czechoslovakia

Cast

Jan Werich

Jan Werich

Narrator (voice) (archive footage)

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