Synopsis
Lola is a lonely fourteen-year-old girl who has grown up with traveling performers. She and her mother, Carmen, perform a trapeze act together. When the Fortunato Circus Troupe, with whom she wanders from city to city and country to country, stops at an animal fair, Lola is entranced by a bear cub alone in a cage. The animal was left to die when its mother was killed by a hunter in the Siberian taiga. Lola begs her stepfather to buy it for her. From then on, she concentrates all her affection on her bear cub, which she names Misha, and discovers that her attachment to the animal can become as strong as the love she could devote to a man. Indeed, one morning upon waking, she’ll discover the power of this strange relationship.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (7)
Production and distribution (3)
- Co-productions : Pyramide Productions, Arte France Cinéma
- Foreign production companies : Tornasol Films, Pandora Film, Alia Film, Film i Väst, CTB Film Company, Memfis Film AB
- French distribution : Pyramide Distribution
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriters : Sergei Bodrov, Carolyn Cavallero
- Director of Photography : Xavier Pérez Grobet
- Music Composers : Giya Kancheli, Siegfried
- Editor : Mette Zeruneith
- Sound Recordist : Sigurdur Sigurdsson
- Costume designer : Karin Lohr
- Foreign producers : Wouter Barendrecht, Karl Baumgartner, Tomas Eskilsson, Gerardo Herrero, Sergei Bodrov, Christoph Friedel, Enzo Porcelli, Sergey Selyanov, Claudia Steffen
- Co-producer : Fabienne Vonier
- Press Attaché (film) : Bruno Barde
- Production Designer : Bernd Lepel
Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Romantic comedy
- Production language : English, Italian, Spanish, Russian
- Coproducer countries : Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Russia
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Germany, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Russia)
- Production year : 2003
- French release : 31/12/2003
- Runtime : 1 h 32 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 102.958
- Visa issue date : 31/03/2003
- Approval : No
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
Box-office & releases
TV broadcasting
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