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Kooky
Sign in to saveKooky (, literally "Kuky returns", a pun on Lassie se vrací) is a 2010 Czech action comedy film directed by Jan Svěrák. The film combines techniques of puppet animation, stop motion and live action. It tells the story of a six-year-old asthmatic boy whose parents throw his favorite toy away, an old teddy bear named Kooky. The boy, however, secretly sneaks out of the house at night (without his boots and being dressed only in his pajamas), to retrieve Kooky from the garbage can and bring him back home. Due to that, the boy gets ill. In his feverish dreams, Kooky comes to life in the landfill, e
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6.7Young Ondra has asthma and so his parents throw away his favourite toy: a musty old stuffed bear named Kooky. That night Ondra dreams that Kooky is determined to find his way back home from the dump. In the boy's fantasy, the bear gets lost in a forest occupied by strange animals and remarkable beings that he never heard of while living on the toy shelf in Ondra's room. And of course even in this small imaginary world, true good exists as does real evil, which Kooky must face up to in order to become a real hero.
Cast
- Zdeněk Svěrák as Hergot (voice)
- Ondřej Svěrák as Ondra and Kuky
- Jiří Lábus as pytlík Zapík (voice)
- Petr Čtvrtníček as pytlík Vidlička (voice)
- Ondřej Vetchý as Dubánek (voice)
- Pavel Liška as Rohánek (voice)
Themes
- garbage
- homeless person
- puppet
- forest
- sickness
- imagine
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- Duration
- 96
- FilmAffinity ID
- 372930
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- publication date
- 2010-01-01
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9 sectionsContents
- Background
- Characters
- Kooky
- Captain von Hergot
- Nightshade
- Pytlík Vidlička and Pytlík Zapík
- Releases, awards and nominations
- References
- External links
Kooky (, literally "Kuky returns", a pun on Lassie se vrací) is a 2010 Czech action comedy film directed by Jan Svěrák. The film combines techniques of puppet animation, stop motion and live action. It tells the story of a six-year-old asthmatic boy whose parents throw his favorite toy away, an old teddy bear named Kooky. The boy, however, secretly sneaks out of the house at night (without his boots and being dressed only in his pajamas), to retrieve Kooky from the garbage can and bring him back home. Due to that, the boy gets ill. In his feverish dreams, Kooky comes to life in the landfill, escapes into a mysterious forest and begins its journey amongst the rough-and-ready creatures of the forest.
==Background== Jan Svěrák initially planned to create a film depicting the world viewed from the perspective of a dog who survives floods; however, he changed his plans after he retold parts of the story to his son Ondřej.