The Hen and the Sexton (Czech: Slepice a kostelník) is a 1951 Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Oldřich Lipský and Jan Strejček.
In the village of Luzanky in Moravian Slovakia live a "progressive" peasant, Toněk Puknica, and his "backward" wife, Tereza.
The members of the cooperative are working hard to increase their harvest, installing a new irrigation system and preparing the fields for plowing.
Voznick convinces the local naive and greedy clerk, Koditek, to help him sabotage the farmers' efforts.
At the end of the film, everything is revealed, Kodytik is convinced of the benefits of cooperatives, and even Tereza recognizes this.