Set over three generations and beginning with a sexually frustrated orderly during WWII who relieves his tensions in the most outlandish, gross ways. The result of his liaison is a glutton who grows up to be a champion speed eater. He produces a child who becomes obsessed with taxidermy.
Practical Effects
Disgusting effects achieved without CGI—somehow worse.
Direction
Pálfi's relentless vision never flinches from the grotesque.
Production
Three eras of Hungarian history rendered in bile and viscera.
Director
György Pálfi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Lajos Parti Nagy's short stories, the film uses Hungary's 20th century traumas—fascism, communism, capitalism—as body metaphors.
Pálfi insisted on practical effects; the speed-eating scenes required actors to actually consume massive quantities, with hidden tubes for regurgitation.
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