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This report is taken from the BBC site. However the report fails to mention a crucial reason for the cuts which I mention at the end.

A Serbian Film is 'most cut' movie in 16 years


Producers have said the movie is allegorical

Controversial movie A Serbian Film has become the most cut film in 16 years, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has said.

The dark thriller, which features disturbing scenes of violence and sex, has had four minutes and 11 seconds of its original content removed.

The BBFC said that it "rarely cuts" cinema releases with an 18 certificate.

In 1994 the Indian movie Nammavar was cut by five minutes and eight seconds for violent content.

A BBFC spokeswoman said: "A number of cuts were required to remove elements of sexual violence that tend to eroticise or endorse sexual violence."

'Immensely indecent'

The film is scheduled for UK release on the 10 December, although distributors Revolver Entertainment said it does not yet know how many cinemas it will be shown in.

A spokesman from the company said: "Revolver remain committed to releasing the closest possible version of the film to the director's original cut.

"The company recognises that the film is an uncompromising, artistic and political statement from a unique film-making vision and remains fully supportive to the director.

"Revolver believes this is a film that deserves to be seen by both a theatrical and home entertainment UK audience," he added.

The movie was written by Serbian horror film critic Aleksandar Radivojevic and directed by Srdjan Spasojevic.

Radivojevic has defended the movie, calling it an "a diary of our molestation by the Serbian government".

He said it was designed to show the "monolithic power of leaders who hypnotise you to do things you don't want to do".

Variety called the film a "well-crafted, immensely indecent smut-slasher", while The Sun newspaper labelled it "sick".

Film critic Scott Weinberg wrote: "I think the film is tragic, sickening, disturbing, twisted, absurd, infuriated, and actually quite intelligent.

"I admire and detest it at the same time. And I will never watch it again. Ever."

In August Westminster Council refused to allow the movie to be shown during the annual Frightfest film festival.

Earlier this month trade magazine Variety reported that Spain had banned public screenings of the film at the Terror Film Week in San Sebastian.

A temporary injunction also prompted the Molins de Rei and Malaga film festival to cancel screenings.


As I mentioned at the start the above report omits to mention a crucial reason for the cuts. This is taken from the BBFC's own website:
Cuts required to remove portrayals of children in a sexualised or abusive context and images of sexual and sexualised violence which have a tendency to eroticise or endorse the behaviour. Cuts made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines and policy.
So in my opinion the BBFC had no choice but to either ban the film or cut it.

And no, I have no intention of ever seeing this film.

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The BBFC will in the next few days provide extended classification information on their site. This will go into more detail as to particularly strong material in the film, so if you want to see the film, you may want to check this out. Link to the BBFC's page for this film  But beware that this may contain spoilers.

As far as the scene you refer to, I have no knowledge of any detail of the film but would think this is almost certainly cut or removed by instructions of the BBFC. I think this can be inferred by the first line of the BBFC's comments I posted above. As such a scene would clearly  and rightly be illegal in this country, the BBFC would by law have to be strict - it would be difficult for them to permit child abuse scenes on artistic grounds.
El Loro
Reference: jackassfan
but some of the sick stuff like the baby rape scene has stopped me from watching it
The BBFC has now provided its extended classification information, and they confirm as I expected that this scene has been fully cut leaving just the sounds of the baby crying and the reactions on the faces of the onlookers. The BBFC do say that a prosthetic model of a baby was used and that no real baby was harmed.
El Loro

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