Two Brothers
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Short description
Two tiger cubs are born among the ruins of a temple in Southeast Asia and grow up under the care of their parents, but they are separated when a hunter arrives to take treasures from the sacred site. One cub is sold to a circus, the other becomes the companion of a colonial administrator's son, and the two are raised apart in captivity. Years later, a cruel owner brings the grown animals together to fight.
Jean-Jacques Annaud directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Alain Godard, and produced with Jake Eberts. Made after Enemy at the Gates and before His Majesty Minor, it is the seventh of the eleven features Annaud has directed, following the animal-centred The Bear. The cast includes Guy Pearce as Aidan McRory, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu and Freddie Highmore, with 38 credited cast members and 45 credited crew. The production cost 75 million dollars and returned 62 million dollars worldwide.
On IMDb it holds 7 out of 10 from 15,738 votes, and on TMDB 7.2 out of 10 from 907 votes, with 113 reviews giving a critics' rating of 6.6 out of 10. The British and French co-production runs 109 minutes in the adventure, drama and family genres.
What's left behind the scenes
- The role of the French ambassador could have gone to Christian Clavier.
- Guy Pearce insisted that the scenes involving him be filmed using adult tigers. As a rule, for the safety of the actors, such scenes are filmed separately and then combined using computer graphics.
- The tigers used in the filming were provided by the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Thailand, near Pattaya.
- The filming of the prince's palace took place in the world-famous Muang Boran Park (“Ancient City”), 33 kilometers from Bangkok, where the most famous historical monuments of Thailand are reproduced on a smaller scale.
- Approximately 30 tigers were used during the filming of the movie. Most of them were taken from French zoos, and the rest were brought from Thailand.
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