The morning after its UK premiere, where it played to a receptive and fascinated crowd, DIY joined the guys at Beyond Hollywood and Screenjabber, for an indepth interview with Spasojevic and his producer Nikola Pantelic.ĭIY: Could you first tell us a bit about your background in film making?
When his old colleague Layla persuades him to come out of retirement for a wealthy and eccentric director determined to make cutting-edge art house pornography, he is drawn into a living hell. If you can stomach the headline-grabbing shocking moments (which you can easily find online if you want to be warned) you’ll see what a compelling and striking film it actually is.Ī Serbian Film follows former porn star Milos (a haunting and sympathetic Srdjan Todorovic), now a loving husband and father to a young son.
A SERBIAN FILM BABY FULL
Even the United States and other countries had screened the full version.ĭirector and co-writer Srdjan Spasojevic claims his film is an allegory of the atrocities his home country Serbia has endured. Earlier this year, attendees of the annual FrightFest were not allowed to see the film uncut, thanks to Westminster council, leading it being pulled by the festival in protest. That amounts to four minutes, 12 seconds of the 99 minute-long film, and gives it the dubious honour of being the most cut film in 16 years.
It will finally get a UK release this Friday 10th December, after the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) insisted on 49 cuts just to get an 18 certificate. The Human Centipede tried valiantly to be this year’s most controversial movie, but that title clearly falls to A Serbian Film.