Mean Barbara (1989)
Overview
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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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | cs |
| Popularity | 0.661 |
Directed By
Vlasta Pospíšilová
Crew
Vlasta Pospíšilová
Jan Werich
Jiří Kubíček
Edgar Dutka
Vladimír Malík
Petr Poš
Jan Sládek
Ivo Špalj
Vlasta Pospíšilová
Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly
Tomáš Formáček
Alena Dětáková
Vladimír Merta
TOP CAST
Jan Werich
Narrator (voice) (archive footage)
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