HN & HCMC: Spring Cinema: “Animals United – Adventure in Africa”

Wed 01 Mar 2017, 7 pm
Hanoi: Goethe Institut
HCMC: Salon Van hoa Ca Phe Thu Bay

From Goethe Institut:

Come to the film screening “Animals United – Adventure in Africa ” within the framework of the Spring Cinema program by the Goethe Institut in Hanoi and HCMC.

Because their habitat is destroyed by humans, the animals decide to take the fate of the planet into their own hands. Animation film (2010).

ABOUT THE FILM

Genre: Animation/Family
Location: Germany
Year: 2010
Director: Holger Tappe, Reinhard Klooss
Screenplay: Oliver Huzly, Reinhard Klooss
Dubbing: Ralf Schmitz, Thomas Fritsch, Christoph Maria Herbst, Bastian Pastewka, Oliver Kalkofe,Nana Spier, Dirk Petrick, Tilo Schmitz, Constantin von Jascheroff
Length: 93 minutes
Age restriction: 6 years of age
Awards:German Animation Screenplay Award at the Festival of Animated Film Stuttgart 2009
Bavarian Film Award 2010 in the category Children’s Film
Nomination for the German Film Award in the category Children’s Film

The animals in the African Savanna are wondering: Where is the water? Long ago it should have come through a canyon from the faraway mountains. The animals are getting thirstier and even more worried, since the last little waterhole is defended by grumpy buffalos and rhinos. So the bold meerkat Billy and the peaceful lion Sokrates leave their home to look out for water.

On their way they meet the Gallic cock Charles who has led a polar bear, a kangaroo, a Tasmanian devil and two Galapagos-tortoises to Africa. They had to leave their home and now hope for a better life in the Okavango-Delta. But humans did not even spare this last paradise: hotel owner Smith has built a gigantic dam and uses the entire water for his luxurious hotel. Just here politicians are holding a conference to discuss the protection of the environment. The animals then answer with their own conference to finally defend themselves.

The story of the film is inspired by the book of the same title by the German novelist Erich Kästner from the year 1949.

Reinhard Klooss has been a successful director, screenwriter and producer since the early 1990s. Animals United is already his third directorial work together with Holger Tappe, who specializes in animation films.

Language: Vietnamese sync, without subtitles

Free admission

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