Requiem for a Village. David Gladwell, 1975.
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Edition screened: BFI ‘Flipside’ Blu-ray #018, released 2011. English language. Runtime approximately 78 minutes.
Summary: A toad is hanged.
Details: A toad is hanged from a branch by one leg at 23:25. He dangles and squirm for 10 seconds, after which the film cuts to the toad’s suspended skeleton (23:35). There is no depiction of the animal dying or decomposing, just the implicit slow death after the hanging.
The BFI Blu-ray also contains four short films by Gladwell:
A Summer Discord (1955)
Miss Thompson Goes Shopping (1958)
The Great Steam Fair (1964)
An Untitled Film (1964)