Upon its debut on the art film circuit, A Serbian Film received substantial attention and controversy for its depictions of graphic violence and sexual content. The film has been banned in several countries including the Philippines, [5] Spain, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, [6] and Norway, [7] and was temporarily banned from screening in Brazil.
It also required compulsory cuts in order to be released in the United Kingdom [8] and received an NC rating in the United States, where it is released by Unearthed Films. Marija is curious about her husband's feelings towards his past and is concerned about the family's income. Marko later informs him that Vukmir is a former psychologist who has worked in children's television and state security. At a road junction, he is approached and seduced by Vukmir's female doctor.
He returns to the now abandoned set and finds several tapes. A masked man then enters the room and forces his penis down her throat to kill her by suffocation. He is then taken into a room to have intercourse with two hidden bodies under a sheet. Vukmir then reveals the masked man to be Marko, his brother. Vukmir's doctor then staggers into the warehouse, clothes disheveled with her vaginal area covered in blood.
She falls and dies from massive vaginal hemorrhaging. Immediately after, a new film crew of three, the mafia patriarch financier and two goons now actors have appeared in the bedroom having likely broken in the house. As the goon unzips his fly , the director advises him to " start with the little one. So, by making the main character in that original synopsis an aging male porn star, I began to incorporate this notion of modern-day colonialism via sexual exploitation of a poor country's human resource".
Bonding over their similar cinematic tastesβmutual appreciation of Paul Schrader 's Hardcore as well as Brian de Palma 's Dressed to Kill , Alfred Hitchcock 's Spellbound , and David Lynch βthe two young men began collaborating professionally. Meanwhile, on the other hand, and this was most depressing of all, you had this EU arts council funded production using Serbia for EU's political agitprop agenda of 'promoting tolerance and reconciliation in the post-war Balkans' by boosting sappy local projects of no aesthetic value whose sole reason for receiving EU financing was their respective authors' willingness to amplify the EU-approved message, i.
