Film
SPRING CINEMA (3): Animals United – Adventure in Africa

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

Wed, 01.03.2017
7:00 PM Salon Van Hoa Ca Phe Thu Bay

Genre: Animation/Family
93 minutes
Age restriction: 6 years of age
Germany 2010
 
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 ever 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 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.