Synopsis
The Girl on the Broomstick (Dívka na koštěti, 1972) is a Czechoslovak fantasy comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Václav Vorlíček.
Saxana is a witch with a poor grade record — she turns into a chicken when asked for a crow, her four-armed headmaster has run out of patience, and her father is a bat who sleeps through the daylight hours. Three hundred years of frozen punishment later, she finds a loophole: 44 hours in the human world, travelling as an owl. Petra Černocká plays Saxana landing in a modern city with no money and no idea how any of it works, and the film's humour comes from exactly that gap — ancient magic meeting electric lights and bureaucracy.
Warm and light, the film has remained a touchstone of Czech children's cinema for decades. Stream The Girl on the Broomstick (1972) online on iFILM.
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