TAXIDERMIA opens in LA August 14, 2009

TAXIDERMIA is an outrageous and at times shocking black comedy featuring three generational stories—about a grandfather, a father and a son—linked together by recurring motifs. The dim grandfather (Csaba Czene), an orderly during World War II, lives in his bizarre fantasies; he desires love and retreats into the realm of gratification, no matter how extreme. The super-sized father (Gergő Trócsányi) desires success as a top athlete—a speed eater—in the post-war, pro-Soviet era. The grandson (Mark Bischoff), a meek, small-boned taxidermist, yearns for something greater: immortality. He wants to create the most perfect work of art of all time by stuffing his own torso. Historical facts and surrealism become intertwined as magical realism, like in the works of Gabriel García Marquez or the Hungarian writer Lajos Parti Nagy; the script is based on two of the latter’s stories. Director/co-writer György Pálfi (Hukkle) added the third story, that of the taxidermist grandson.

AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival
Official Selection: Toronto, Pusan, Chicago, London, Melbourne, Athens, Transylvania,
Bergen, Montreal New Cinema, Sao Paulo, Sitges, Cottbus, Seville, Taipei Golden Horse,
Thessaloniki, Tallinn Black Night, Helsinki, Reykjavik, Goteborg
Silver Hugo, Chicago Film Festival
Best Director, Transylvanian Film Festival
Grand Prize, Critics Award, Best Supporting Actor; Best Supporting Actress, the 37th Hungarian Film Week
Audience Award, Fantasporto Film Festival
Awards for Script: Sundance NHK Award, Best European film project
Iris Award for Best Film, Brussels European Film Festival
Best Director at Eurasia Film Fest, Antalya
Critics' Award for Best Film, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Best European Film, Europeanfilms.net
Hungary’s official entry to 2007 Academy Awards

"Visually dazzling and outlandishly obscene" - Philadelphia Inquirer (Steven Rea)

"The very sharp satire is enlivened by a visual sense informed by Lynch and Gilliam as well as the Eastern European antecedent's you'd expect. Magnificent, provided you can stomach it" - Premiere (Glenn Kenny)
"With a Brazil-like midsection that lampoons the brutish culture of the former Communist bloc, Taxidermia churns with some delicious dollops of social and psychological satire" - The Hollywood Reporter (Duane Byrge)
“Taxidermia sets a benchmark for body horror in the cinema… middle segment is ghastly funny on par with anything the Monty Pythons dreamed up, and the climax one-ups David Cronenberg's worst nightmare.” - Variety (Eddie Cockrell)