The Fierce One (1971)
Directed by Tolomush Okeyev
Genres - Drama |
Sub-Genres - Animal Picture, Childhood Drama, Rural Drama |
Run Time - 97 min. |
Countries - Russia |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain
This visually stunning Kazakh movie tells a tragic tale of absent and misplaced compassion. A young orphan rescues an orphaned wolf cub and lavishes considerable affection on it. His uncle, believing that this "softness" will result in the boy's being unable to endure the rigors of life on the Kazakh steppes, savagely beats the cub in front of the boy. By the time the grown wolf is released into the wild, it has grown extremely ferocious and it returns and attacks the boy, perhaps because it perceives him as being weak, just as the boy's uncle did.
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abuse, animal, compassion, orphan, rescue, wolf