Once Upon a Time There Was a Country (Bila jednom jedna zemlja). Emir Kusturica, 1995.
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Edition screened: Included on BFI Underground Blu-ray/DVD set, released 2016. Serbian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 315 minutes.
Summary: Dead and injured animals.
Details:
Episode 1
1) A zoo is bombed 10:20-12:10, with numerous images of wounded, dying, and dead animals including big cats and water fowl.
2) Cruel handling of a house cat, with an injured tiger in the background, 18:05-18:15.
Episode 4
3) A cat is held by the neck then kicked, 8:35-8:42.
4) The episode ends with repeated discussion of killing pigs while the animals are held suspended by their back feet.
Once Upon a Time There Was a Country is the long cut of Kusturica’s Underground, and was shown as a 5-hour TV mini-series on Serbian television.