Taxidermia

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.

Release Year: 2006

Rating: 6.9/10 (6,841 voted)

Critic's Score: 83/100

Director:
György Pálfi

Stars: Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi, Marc Bischoff

Storyline
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.

Writers: György Pálfi, Zsófia Ruttkay

Cast:

Csaba Czene
–

Morosgoványi Vendel

(as Csaba Czene)

Gergely Trócsányi
–

Balatony Kálmán

(as Trócsányi Gergõ)

Marc Bischoff
–

Balatony Lajoska

István Gyuricza
–

Hadnagy

(as Gyuricza István)

Piroska Molnár
–

Hadnagyné

(as Molnár Piroska)

Gábor Máté
–

Öreg Balatony Kálmán

(as Máté Gábor)

Géza Hegedüs D.
–

Dr. Regõczy Andor

(as Hegedüs D. Géza)

Zoltán Koppány
–

Miszlényi Béla

(as Koppány Zoltán)

Erwin Leder
–

Krisztián

Adél Stanczel
–

Aczél Gizi

(as Stanczel Adél)

Éva Kuli
–

Leóna

(as Kuli Éva)

Lajos Parti Nagy
–

Dédnagypapa

(as Parti Nagy Lajos)

Attila Lõrinczy
–

Pap

(as Lõrinczy Attila)

Mihály Pálfi
–

Baba

(as Mihály Pálfi)

Eszter Bíró Kiss
–

Gyufaárus lány

(as Bíró Kiss Eszter)

Taglines:
Three stories. Three generations. Three men. One bizarre and shocking universe.

Details

Official Website:
Official site [Hungary] |
Official site [United States] |

Release Date: 23 August 2006

Filming Locations: Budapest, Hungary

Box Office Details

Budget: HUF 500,000,000

(estimated)

Gross: $10,205
(USA)
(8 November 2009)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

USA: 91 min

Did You Know?

Trivia:

Hungary's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).

User Review

Insane, gory, violent, crazy – but not without meaning. Absolutely perfect.

Rating: 10/10


György Pálfi's second feature length movie is Taxidermia, which is
about three generation of a family, and all of them has something very
peculiar about them: the first one is a horny officer, his son is a
very big sport-eater, and his job is very important of him. The third
isn't special in any ways, but wants to be. He's very skinny, and there
is nothing important about him. His relationship with his father is not
very balanced: they diverge from each other in every possible way. But
he's secretly planning something, from what he will be famous of…
Nothing in Hungarian cinema's history can be compared to this. Not a
single Hungarian movie was as violent as this one is sometimes. In some
scene it reminded me of Pasolini's Salo. But the disgusting and the
violent scenes are all meaningful; probably they are a perverse,
misshapen mirror of the society. We can't say, that the leading
characters are perverted, because everybody is as much perverted, as
the ones we see. Fortunately this unique movie is presented by a big
amount of humor – and we simply can't take the characters totally
seriously. Taxidermia is a milestone in Hungarian film-making, and was
worth every single cent of the Sundance money, from which it was made.