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The Great Adventure

The Great Adventure

7,0 /10 (20 Votes)
1953 EN 94 min

Overview

Arne Sucksdorff’s celebrated nature film follows two brothers in rural Sweden as they witness a fox raid and secretly raise an orphaned otter. Told through an adult’s memories, it reflects on childhood, nature, and the fragile balance between wilderness and civilization. The film won the International Prize at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.

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Release date

28/09/1953

Votes

20

Popularity

0.9

Status

Released

Original title

Det stora äventyret

Language

EN

Runtime

94 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-08-02

⭐ 7

This starts off as if from something Beatrix Potter might have written with a family of foxes trying to survive in the Swedish countryside and stay out of the way of a menacing lynx. The vixen manages to irritate the farmer, though, by helping herself to one of his chickens and so shortly thereafter there is just one cub left to make it's way. Surprisingly it allies itself with a frolicking otter. When the otter is trapped by a wily old codger - after he'd tried to hit it with an axe, the young Anders comes to it's rescue. Swearing his younger brother Kjell to secrecy, they now set about reari…

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