Conspirators of Pleasure DVD

Czech director Jan Svankmajer's surreal black comedy explores the outlandish sexual fetishes of six outwardly normal people. Peony Petr Meissel indulges his passion for pornography and poultry by constructing a chicken suit complete with a papier-mch mask made from porn magazines, which he then uses to taunt and crush an effigy of his neighbour, Mrs. Loubalova Gabriela Wilhelmov. She in turn is fond of secretly whipping and drowning a straw effigy of her fellow tenant. Meanwhile, Peony's postwoman Mrs. Malkova Barbora Hrznov, satisfies herself by rolling pieces of bread into balls to ingest wherever she can. Finally, the local newsagent Kula Jir Lbus, who provides Peony with his porn, has invented an autoerotic device to enable him to reach untold heights while watching Mrs. Beltinska Anna Wetlinsk, the nightly news anchor, whose husband Pavel Novy likes nothing better of an evening than