How A Farmer Sent His Ox to Schools

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10 minutes, 35 mm, colour, 1980
Combined
Audience: adults
Commentary: off screen

Producer: KF a.s. - Jiri Trnka Studio
Director: Zdenek Vins
Designer: Vaclav Pokorny

A film based on Chodsko region fairy-tales by Simon Jindrich Baar mock human vanity and dullness. A clever fellow from Sumava mountains convinces a Bavarian farmer that he will send his ox to studies to Vienna so that he can sell the ox. The credulous simple Bavarian believes him but he goes to Vienna to see with his own eyes how his ox becomes a minister. a satiric story proper in any regime.

All films directed by Zdenek Vins:
How A Farmer Sent His Ox to Schools • The Snake Prince • The Spirit of Mountains and a Poacher • The Spirit of Mountains and Taming of a Shrew • The Spirit of Mountains and the Bearded Dontovka • The Spirit of Mountains and the School • The Spirit of Mountains and the Spook

All films designed by Vaclav Pokorny:
How A Farmer Sent His Ox to Schools • The Snake Prince