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Section: Golden Slipper for Special Contribution in Children´s and Youth Cinema
The Girl on the Broomstick (1971)
Saxan the witch doesn’t want to spend 300 years in detention after school, so she flees to the human world. The headteacher sends a retired vampire to look after and retrieve her, but Saxana doesn't want to go back. She’s trying to find an old maid's ear to create a potion that will close the way back to the fairy-tale land. But since she's always been inattentive in class, she's unaware that it is not real "old maid's ear", but rather a plant....
| Country | Czech Republic |
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| Year | 1971 |
| Duration | 76 min |
| Rating | 8 |
| Language | Czech |
| Subtitle | No subtitles |
| Directed by | Václav Vorlíček |
| Screenplay | Hermína Franková, Miloš Macourek, Václav Vorlíček |
| Director of Photography | Vladimír Novotný |
| Music | Angelo Michajlov |
| Edited by | Miroslav Hájek |
| Contact | Národní filmový archiv |
Biography
A Czech film director and screenwriter, he graduated in directing from FAMU. He gained fame for his comedy parodies with fantasy and fairy-tale themes, like Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (Kdo chce zabít Jessii?, 1966) and You Are a Widow, Sir! (Pane, vy jste vdova!, 1970). His films Three Wishes for Cinderella (Tři oříšky pro Popelku, 1973), The Prince and the Evening Star (Princ a Večernice, 1978) and the TV series Arabella (1979) also found success.