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Marc Bischoff, as a sallow, cadaverous taxidermist in the Communist era, in a film by the Hungarian director Gyorgy Palfi.
August 14, 2009
A Speed-Eating Course on the Bestial Appetites of Humanity
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Published: August 14, 2009
Among the grotesque images paraded through Gyorgy Palfi’s film “Taxidermia,” the most indelible are neither the graphic depiction of an obsessive voyeur masturbating with fire nor the shearing of a pig’s tail attached to a newborn baby. They are found in its extended scenes of sport-eating competitions by a Hungarian team of gourmands during the Communist era...
In Part 1 Vendel Morosgovanyi (Csaba Czene), a servile military orderly and peeping Tom in a remote wintry outpost, obsessively spies on the wife and daughters of his sadistic commanding officer, who treats him like a slave. Vendel finds comfort in secret lust. He tortures himself with a candle flame, drinks fire and in a spectacular special effect turns his erect penis into a flaming rocket.
After he copulates with the lieutenant’s slovenly wife in a scene in which squeals and grunts are accompanied by his fantasies of her daughters and a slaughtered pig, she becomes pregnant. More
