Taxidermia
Taxidermia is a 2006 Hungarian surrealist comedy-drama horror film directed and co-written by György Pálfi. An international co-production of Hungary, Austria and France, the film spins a metaphorical socio-political retelling of Hungary's history from the Second World War to the present day.
Plot
At a remote Hungarian military outpost, orderly Morosgoványi Vendel lives a wretched existence of servitude beneath the heel of his lieutenant, Öreg Balatony Kálmán. Condemned to performing menial duties for the officer and his family while sleeping in an unheated shack next to the latrines, Morosgoványi frequently escapes into fantasy. So realistic are these fantasies that in one ambiguous instance, Morosgoványi sleeps with and impregnates the lieutenant's wife and "wakes up" to find himself engaged in an act of sodomy with a slaughtered pig. Upon seeing this, the lieutenant promptly executes Morosgoványi and raises the son, Balatony Kálmán, as his own.
More details
author | György Pálfi Zsófia Ruttkay |
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director | György Pálfi |
editor | Réka Lemhényi |
events | body corporeality desire human condition intergenerationality |
genre | comedy-drama horror political |
keywords | breaking point condemn dedicate engage haunt impoverish international olympic committee ioc machine military outpost nothing sew sleep train wretched |
musicBy | Amon Tobin |
producer | Gábor Váradi Péter Miskolczi |
productionCompany | Amour Fou Filmproduktion Eurofilm Stúdió Katapult Film La Cinéfacture Memento Films Production |
publisher | Pool Filmverlieh |
recordedAt | Budapest |
theme | black comedy body horror comedy horror independent surreal |