Chimpanzee (film)
- Alexander Brem: spokesman ( German version )
- Tim Allen: Speaker (Original Version)
Chimpanzees (Original Title: Chimpanzee ) is a docu-fiction directors Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield of 2012, in which an Oscar -called Schimpansenjunges in the rain forest of the Ivory Coast alone to subsist until it is adopted and raised by another chimpanzee.
Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures Germany the film was released in Germany on 9 May 2013. In the U.S. he ran on 20 April 2012.
Chimpanzees is the sixth film of the Disneynature label, the " Realm of the big cats" published among other things, "Earth" and.
Action
In the rain forest of the Ivory Coast chimpanzees boy Oskar grows. In the midst of his clan and protected by his mother, he learns to use tools to search for food and to explore its environment. Looking for fruits that need the chimpanzee to survive, penetrates a rival group of chimpanzees around their leader Scar in the area of Freddy, the experienced alpha male of Oskar's clan, a.
A trip that leads to fierce clashes between the groups. After one of these fights Oskars mother is missing. The chimpanzees boy is found overnight on itself, which he faces certain death. His only hope is to find a monkey mother who adopted him. But all mothers with their own boys reject him. Without a food supplier Oskar becomes increasingly weaker and more desperate, until he completely surprising from one side receives assistance, which no one could have seen coming. Freddy takes him under his wing.
Background and production
The Disneynature film directors Alastair Fothergill and Mark of Linfield was filmed National Park in the west of Ivory Coast in the Taï. The team at the two directors and producers turned in the West African rain forest to observe the animals for several years in their natural environment and to film.
Since 1980, research Christophe Boesch and his team the lifestyle and culture of chimpanzees in this area. With its Wild Chimpanzee Foundation to Boesch also sets for the preservation of their endangered habitat. Without the local support and the scientific know -how of the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, the film would not have been possible. The primatologist and United Nations Messenger of Peace, Jane Goodall has advised the producers of " chimpanzee ", and supports the finished film.
Disney Nature was founded in April 2008 with the aim to bring together the best nature filmmaker to bring the diversity of natural life on the canvas. Disneynature, continuing the tradition of Walt Disney, who was himself a pioneer of wildlife films and has produced 1949-1960 13 "True Life Adventures ".