Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden divu). Jaromil Jireš, 1970.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #761, released 2015. Czech language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 76 minutes.
Summary: Several animal deaths.
Details:
1) A 2-second typical depiction of a pig’s body impaled and roasting over a fire begins at 22:44.
2) A town’s central courtyard contains scattered dead chickens, the result of bird flu, beginning at 35:04 and lasting about 4 seconds.
3) At 47:20 we get the indication that a chicken’s neck is being bitten into vampirically, but we don’t see the action.
4) Beginning at 1:04:06 is a 4-second sequence in which a weasel attacks a chicken, then a man shoots the weasel.
The Criterion Blu-ray also contains three early short films by Jireš, all free of violence to animals:
Uncle (1959)
Footprints (1960)
The Hall of Lost Footsteps (1960)