Carnage: Swallowing the Past (2017)

Director
Simon Amstell

Main cast
Simon Amstell; Linda Bassett; Martin Freeman; Eileen Atkins; Joanna Lumley

Genres
Sci-Fi, Comedy, Documentary

Description
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.


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