Taxidermia is a 2006 satirical comedy-drama surrealist body 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 Vendel Morosgoványi performs menial labor for lieutenant Öreg Balatony Kálmán and Öreg's family while sleeping in an unheated shack next to the latrines. Morosgoványi frequently escapes into highly vivid, perverse sexual fantasies. In one ambiguous instance, Morosgoványi has sex with and impregnates Öreg's wife and "wakes up" to find himself engaged in an act of sodomy with a slaughtered pig. Upon seeing this, Öreg fatally shoots Morosgovány. Months later, Öreg's wife gives birth to a son, Kálmán Balatony, who is born with a pig's tail. Öreg immediately cuts off Kálmán's tail, proceeding to raise the boy as his own.