Bestiality -bestialita- - Peter Skerl 1976 -vhs... !!better!!

The story follows a young girl named Jeanine who is traumatized after witnessing her mother with the family dog. In retaliation, her father burns the house down with the animal inside. Years later, a grown Jeanine (played by Leonora Fani ) lives on a remote island with her own dog, where her trauma manifests as nymphomania. The plot thickens when a visiting architect and his wife become entangled in her life, leading to a "bloody and off-beat climax."

The core belief is not that animals have the right to be free from human use, but that they have the right to be treated humanely during their lives and to experience a painless death.

The film's true notoriety, however, comes from its central taboo. The screenplay, described as "ultra-sleazy", includes multiple scenes where the act of bestiality is explicitly depicted. The most famous is the opening, showing the mother in a missionary position with the dog. For these scenes, it was widely considered the first film in mainstream Italian cinema to portray the act so openly. Bestiality -Bestialita- - Peter Skerl 1976 -Vhs...

Skerl was an enigmatic figure who started in theater and co-wrote the giallo Naked Girl Murdered in the Park (1972). Due to strict Italian tax and distribution laws, Italian director Virgilio Mattei was officially credited on local prints to ensure the movie qualified as a domestic production.

The cast includes actors who were either established stars or on the verge of major fame: The story follows a young girl named Jeanine

The story centers on Jeanine, a young woman who was severely traumatized as a child after witnessing her mother engage in sexual acts with the family's Doberman. In a fit of rage, her father chained the dog to the house and set it on fire. Dog Lay Afternoon (1976) - IMDb November 16, 1976 (Italy) Bestialità (1976) - IMDb

Bestialità was released in Italian cinemas on November 16, 1976. It immediately ran into serious legal trouble. The film's most notorious sequence—the opening scene featuring actress in a (simulated) sexual encounter with a Doberman—was too much for Italian authorities. According to IMDb trivia, Franca Stoppi was condemned for immoral acts by a Roman judge specifically because of this scene. The extreme censorship and legal prosecution meant that official distribution was limited, localized, and often pulled from shelves as soon as they appeared. The plot thickens when a visiting architect and

The story focuses on a young girl named Jeanine (played as an adult by Leonora Fani) who suffers severe childhood trauma after witnessing her mother (Franca Stoppi) engaging in simulated relations with the family's Doberman. When her father discovers this, he chains the dog inside the house and burns it to the ground.