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Taxidermia (2006) -- Gyorgy Palfi's grotesque tale of three generations of men, including an obese speed eater, an embalmer of gigantic cats, and a man who shoots fire out of his penis.
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Overview

User Rating:
7.0/10   3,910 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Lajos Parti Nagy (short stories)
György Pálfi (writer)
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Release Date:
23 August 2006 (France) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Three stories. Three generations. Three men. One bizarre and shocking universe.
Plot:
Gyorgy Palfi's grotesque tale of three generations of men, including an obese speed eater, an embalmer of gigantic cats, and a man who shoots fire out of his penis. | full synopsis
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Awards:
7 wins & 2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(7 articles)
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Film: Review:Taxidermia
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User Comments:
Easily makes my top 10 films of the naughties! more (26 total)

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Csaba Czene ... Morosgoványi Vendel
Gergely Trócsányi ... Balatony Kálmán
Piroska Molnár ... Hadnagyné
Adél Stanczel ... Aczél Gizi

Marc Bischoff ... Balatony Lajoska
Gábor Máté ... Öreg Balatony Kálmán
Zoltán Koppány ... Miszlényi Béla
Géza Hegedüs D. ... Dr. Regõczy Andor
Erwin Leder ... Krisztián
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Krunoslav Agatic
Géza Balkay ... Szovjet tábornok
Attila Balogh ... Csehszlovák versenyzõ
Gyuláné Bán ... Dadus
Laszlo Banya
Katalin Bene ... Anyuka
Eszter Bíró Kiss ... Gyufaárus lány
Péter Blaskó ... Orvos
Zoltan Bocza
Gyula Bodnár ... Versenybíró
Mária Bodor ... Bába
Antal Brazda
Moreno Cina
Attila Cseh ... Versenybíró
Csaba Cseh ... Versenybíró
Csöszke ... Mongol díszvendég
Iván Dengyel ... Szvigadurin
Lajos Derzsi ... Versenybíró
Lajos Dobi ... Szovjet vezérkari tiszt
Kálmán Dúl ... Gyúró
Sándor Fehér ... Edzõ
Laszlo Fekete
Renato Fenes
Günter Fenske ... Edzõ
Sándor Gergely ... Gyúró
Orsolva Geszier
Péter Gyárfás ... Szovjet vezérkari tiszt
István Gyuricza ... Hadnagy
János Gyuriska ... Fiatal hadnagy
Attila Hajas
Sándor Hamar ... Böllér
Sándor Hámori ... Gyúró
István Hangos ... NDK versenyzõ
Ferenc Horvath
István Hunyadkürthy ... Jenõ bá
Bence Imecs
László Kalocsai ... Edzõ
Laszlo Kantor
Jörg Kapfer ... Fitnesz edzõ
Claudia Kariko ... Pénztáros lány
Ferenc Karolyi
Bibor Keates
János Keszeli ... Gyúró
Gyula Kiss ... Gyúró
Kata Kiss ... Edzõ
Viktória Kiss ... Kicsi Lajoska
Tibor Kocsis
Szimonetta Komondi
Lajos Koteles
György Kozma ... Román versenyzõ
Éva Kuli ... Leóna
Réka Lemhényi ... Edzõ
Dezsõ Libor ... Lengyel versenyzõ
István Lõcsey ... Versenybíró
Attila Lõrinczy ... Pap
Zoltan Marosi
Ottó Meszlényi ... Szovjet vezérkari tiszt
Zsolt Molnár
Pál Morauszki ... Gyúró
Mari Nagy ... Portásnõvér
Ilona Nagyné Korsos
Richard Zsolt Nagy
Norbert Növényi ... Ottó bá
Albert Oláh ... Segéd
József Pallós ... Szovjet versenyzõ
Ferenc Paput ... Edzõ
Lajos Parti Nagy ... Dédnagyapa
Andras Peteri
Attila Petrovics
Florian Plaushin
Karim Rahoma ... Pénztáros fiú
Ferenc Süveges ... Edzõ
Levente Szabo
Imre Szalai ... Gyúró
József Szántó ... Gyúró
Eszter Szász ... ASzinkrontolmács
Máté Szécsy ... Bolgár versenyzõ
Attila Szücs
Anita Tóth ... Tolmácsnõ
Zsolt Toth
Bence Trombitas
Richárd Vas ... Kicsi Kálmán
Péter Vida ... Hangosbemondó
István Znamenák ... Éles elvtárs
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Taxidermia - Der Ausstopfer (Austria)
Taxidermie (France)
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Runtime:
Canada:91 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | Argentina:91 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival) | USA:91 min
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Hungary's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008). more

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17 out of 21 people found the following comment useful.
Easily makes my top 10 films of the naughties!, 6 December 2007
10/10
Author: Luke Bone from United Kingdom

Gyorgy Palfi's second feature Taxidermia is definitely a milestone in Hungarian film-making, it is a truly astonishing experience and I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone wanting to broaden their taste for cinema. I found the film to be a deep black comedy with some stomach churning, twisted scenes intermixed with beautiful artwork and sophomore characters.

Through chronicling the lives of three generations of one family (a soldier from the Second World War, a sportsman and a taxidermist) each is shown to have their own perverse and distorted lifestyle which is cleverly exhibited through (among other approaches), myriad masturbation, excessive gluttony, deformation, dismemberment and taxidermy. In this film Palfi has created a deviant and anomalous world and, via his own talented cinema techniques, has managed to depict it in a shrewdly reflective manner i.e. he holds a mirror up to our own. Those familiar with European cinema will be able to reminisce with the many influences on show, with some scenes even harking back to Pasolini's epic, Salo - this is also combined with many other surreal influences. Some would argue that Taxidermia is a gory, violent and unnecessarily eccentric film but it is all necessary in serving its narrative and is not present for titillation purposes - as is so often found in some of the more contemporary European cinema.

Generally I feel that Taxidermia tells of a society in which defect, sleaze and dishonesty serves its creators own personal vision or goal to further themselves and that this search justifies everything, regardless of how twisted or harmful. In addition to this journey Taxidermia presents the audience with some of the ugliest and darkest places of the human mind. Without saying anymore, I would even go so far to say that Taxidermia is one of the greatest feats of 21st century movie-making.

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