While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient octopuses made of strange material that attracts electricity. They take them as pets.
Practical Effects
Gloriously janky stop-motion octopus puppets with personality
Production
Communist-era Czech sci-fi aesthetics hit different
Acting
Kids sell absolute nonsense with straight faces
Director
Jindřich Polák
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during late Communist Czechoslovakia, the film smuggles subversive themes about authority figures being oblivious to real dangers right under the censors' noses.
Director Jindřich Polák also made the legendary 1963 sci-fi 'Ikarie XB-1,' making this his deeply unhinged family-friendly pivot.
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