The Great Adventure

The Great Adventure

The Great Adventure

7.0/ 10

TMDB Rating

22

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1953

Release Year

94 min

Runtime

Adventure

Family

Drama

Overview

Arne Sucksdorff’s celebrated nature film follows two brothers in rural Sweden as they witness a fox raid and secretly raise an orphaned otter. Told through an adult’s memories, it reflects on childhood, nature, and the fragile balance between wilderness and civilization. The film won the International Prize at the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.

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Keywords

farm

sweden

fox

docudrama

otter

Cast

Anders Nohrborg

Anders

Kjell Sucksdorff

Kjell

Holger Stockman

Kvast-Emil

Arne Sucksdorff

Arne Sucksdorff

Father

Amanda Haglund

Grandmother

Annika Ekedahl

Annika

Aina Fritzell

Teacher

Gunnar Sjöberg

Gunnar Sjöberg

Narrator (voice)

Stina Andersson

Erik Bodin

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7.0avg rating

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

August 2, 2026

7

7/10

This starts off as if from something Beatrix Potter might have written with a family of foxes trying to survive in the Swedish countryside and stay out of the way of a menacing lynx. The vixen manages to irritate the farmer, though, by helping herself to one of his chickens and so shortly thereafter…

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