Mean Barbara (1987)
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
