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http://www.google.es/url?q=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DfdOHEnEQZ0Y&sa=X&oi=video_result&resnum=1&ct=thumbnail&usg=AFQjCNFPYGl_RM_W-Wq2hU7m07fycHjGDA

The website of the kitten killer:

http://www.toepler.fw.hu/ and his e-mail: toepler@estmail.hu



Website of the Hungarian Film Week that awarded the
film:

http://www.szemle.film.hu/object.30fa3a8f-4320-49d2-ba36-45056328b63a.ivy



Office address: Budapest 1075, Rumbach S. u. 12.

Phone number: +36 1 327 0006

Fax number: +36 1 266 8534

e-mail: info@szakma.film.hu



Video *(warning!!!! very graphic images)
 
http://index.hu/kultur/cinematrix/ccikkek/alszent4670



PETITION:

http://www.petitiononline.com/faszzolt/petition.html



AW: Babykatze für Kunstfilm "live"ertränkt

Kitten killed in the name of fine arts


 
Hypocritical Saint (Álszent, hungarian experimental motion picture,
currently w/o IMDB page) presented at 38th Hungarian Film Week shows
explicitly the suffocation of a cat. Torture of an animal - or is it fine
art?

The jury denies any knowledge of the shooting conditions of the film
about cult activist, even while in february it was no sort of secret.



Best Experimental Film was awarded to Hypocritical Saint directed by
"Nicolaus MYSLICKI", a motion picture, that shows the suffocation and agony
of a cat for more than two minutes.

The scene is not a trickery, the cat actually dies after long pains and suffering, as hungarian internet movie
portal http://images.gmx.net/images/gmx/#

Filmpont.hu http://filmpont.hu/



Animal abuse in sect movie

The movie, depicting a sect leader seeking the way of God, won the award for
being outrageous in shooting and in storyboard, and for depicting a sacral
topic in unconventional ways.

Director and dramatist Zoltan TOEPLER (using pen http://images.gmx.net/images/gmx/# name Nickolaus MYSLICKI)
admitted, that the animal died during the shot, while he was defending with the cat was sick, and was awaiting mercy killing on the next day.



http://eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=7290

Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 10:15

Subject: /Hungary-Entertain/Crime/



Hungarian police investigate kitten murder in film



Budapest (dpa) - Hungarian police are investigating a film director after an
animal-protection charity reported him for drowning a kitten in a scene from
a recent prize-winning film.



The Herman Otto Animal and Nature Defence Association reported Zoltan
Toepler after he admitted that a kitten really died in the scene from his
film Alszent (Hypocrite).



A statement by the association said the animal had been killed with the
greatest possible suffering to achieve "the desired effect," and called this
a serious crime against society.



The association said that according to Hungarian law, animals could only be
killed for acceptable reasons, such as incurable illnesses and academic
research.



It also pointed out that animals could only be killed by drugs, as this
caused the least suffering.



Toepler released a statement in response to hate mail, including death
threats, he received after the complaint came to light.



The director said that while the animal had been killed, he had received the
footage from an outside source.



"I didn't drown the kitten, but when a colleague showed me the footage, I
said this must go in the film," he said. ""When I asked where the footage
came from, I was told that it was a sick animal incapable of living that was
put down."



"I would judge those who torture feeling creatures, but not the cameraman
who filmed it," he continued.



The film, which Toepler made under the name Nicolaus Myslicki, won a special
prize at the 2007 Hungarian Film Week for best experimental short.



Members of the film-week jury said in statement on the event's website that
they would withdraw the award if it could be proven beyond a doubt that the
animal was killed simply for the sake of the film.