A beautiful but clumsy young witch seeks a human ear to stay in the human realm in 1972's The Girl on the Broomstick (Dívka na koštěti). Petra Černocká stars as Saxana, the title character, in this amusing and occasionally surreal teen comedy.
A man catches an owl and brings it home in a sack. His son, Honza (Jan Hrušínský), opens the bag and is startled not to find an owl but a beautiful, busty teenage girl. She begs not to be put in a cage.
This is a movie for kids but there are plenty of hints at adult humour. Occasionally, it almost seems to have great artistic ambition, as when Honza's head comes off in one scene and his headless body takes a plaster sculpture of Napoleon's head and places it on his shoulders. He paints it before going outside, as if that would help.
Saxana spends most of her time with three delinquent boys who con her into turning the school faculty into rabbits. There's a lot of transformation humour in this one.
The Girl on the Broomstick is available on The Criterion Channel.
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