

The Great Adventure
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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- Language
- Swedish
- farm
- sweden
- fox
- docudrama
- otter
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical23 May 1955
ArgentinaAR
- TheatricalATP16 Jan 1957
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical24 Feb 1956
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical24 Sept 1954
FinlandFI
- TheatricalS5 Nov 1954
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival9 Apr 1954
- Theatrical22 Jun 1955
GermanyDE
- Theatrical626 Jun 1954
NetherlandsNL
- TheatricalAL22 Apr 1955
NorwayNO
- Theatrical616 Sept 1954
South AfricaZA
- Theatrical18 Mar 1957
SwedenSE
- TheatricalBtl28 Sept 1953
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The Great Adventure was released on 28 September 1953.
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CinemaSerf
8/2/2026
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 there is just one cub left to make it's way. Surprisingly it allies itself with a frolicking otter. When the otter is t…
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