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The Hen and the Sexton (1951)

The Hen and the Sexton poster
Original title
Slepice a kostelník
Directed by
Jan Strejček, Oldřich Lipský
Genre
comedy film
Country
Czechoslovakia
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

It is a Czechoslovak comedy about a sexton who gets into a series of mishaps involving a hen. The story follows his attempts to deal with the chaos that follows.

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What happens

The Hen and the Sexton (Czech: Slepice a kostelník) is a 1951 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Oldřich Lipský and Jan Strejček. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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