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Directed by Thierry Zeno, this no-dialogue, one-actor, black and white film is of some notoriety - banned in Australia and (if memory serves) UK customs tried to prevent its entering the country for a film festival showing in the 1970s. Has anyone seen it?

It's now available on DVD in Sweden, under the title Svinet.

Isn't this the Pig Fucking Movie?

Yes, it's the Pig Fucking Movie.

A DVD will be available from Germany, too. A long Interview (72Min.) with the director will be a bonus. I'll post again as soon as I know where you can buy it the cheapest, if you have to ship it to a location outside of Germany.

Germany DVD:

That looks like a good set there. And it's going to be easier to get past Customs than a grey market jewel case saying 'The Pig Fucking Movie'.

So is it really 79 minutes of pig-fucking or 76 minutes of foreplay?

they really did go all out for a this film.

Is the pig a man or a woman?

The pig is female. Which is how it can

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give birth to human-pig piglettes

afterwards (seriously, this is what happens).

It really isn't a movie about pig fucking, though for SOME strange reason that's what sticks in people's head There's a lot more to it, and I'm glad that this set seems to be putting it into a context beyond the pig fucking metaphor.

RodneyOz wrote:The pig is female. Which is how it can

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give birth to mutant human-pig hybrid piglettes

afterwards (seriously, this is what happens).

This just jumped up to my must-watch list, although sitting through a guy sexing up a pig may be too much for even me.

I have never seen it, but had the opportunity to read the texts in the booklet and the subtitles for the interview. The movie seems to be a very bleak vision of an existence reduced to the most basic needs and rituals. While reading the texts I always had Cipri i Maresco in mind and am looking forward to prove if the movie really holds up to this high expectation.

golgothicon wrote:I'll post again as soon as I know where you can buy it the cheapest, if you have to ship it to a location outside of Germany.

This information (shipping to the US) would be much appreciated, if you have a chance.

I posted some screencaps in the designated thread.
Some short notes to de-mystify this film:

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The "pig fucking" takes ca. 1min and 10sec, the newborns look like normal pigs.

The Film is mainly about strange rituals in the life of a strange person, and not about sodomy.

Regarding this movie Rituals is the key words together with taboo.

It's an exploration of human taboo conducted in a way that is at the same time lyrical, literal and metaphorical.

Pasolini comes to mind. Teorema, Porcile and Medea especially.

Thierry Zeno is ananthropologist with a camera.

All his films are really challenging. unfortunately the fucking pig reference is what sticks in people mind.

I would really like to be able again to watch his beautiful (yet disturbing) film Les Morts about inhumation and burial rituals all over the world.