HUNGARY: Taxidermia. 2005

Director: Gyorgy Palfi
Stars: Csaba Czene, Gergo Trocsanyi, Marc Bishoff, Istvan Gyuricza.
Release date: Hungary - 3 Feb 2006
Genre: Comedy/wierdo/freaky stuff
Length: 92 mins

Please please please Sydney Film Festival people get this one. It looks barking mad. It definitely has that Balkan region feel to it. As in the insanity that permeates Emir Kusturica's films. An adaptation from a novel by contemporary Hungarian writer Lajos Parti-Nagy. A Hungarian, German, Austrian & French co-production.

It just won the Best Film Award at the recent 37th Hungarian Film Week. "The award consists of €300,000 that will go towards the director’s next film. Taxidermia also received awards for Best Set Design & Best Supporting Actress and Actor for Adél Stanczel and Csaba Czene, respectively."

Synopsis
The heroes of Taxidermia are three men. Three generations of a family, who happen to live in Eastern Europe, in Hungary. The story of the grandfather, the awkward batman of a ruthless captain in the 2nd World war; the father, who is a professional sports man, a competitive eater during the socialist era; and the story of the son, who is a taxidermist, the sculptor of organic material, is told by the youngest member of the family. Surrealism and historical facts get mixed up in his imagination, creating a kind of "fairy realism".

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