The Cunning Little Vixen

The Cunning Little Vixen

2008 · 101 min · Fantasy, Music

In the forest, the animals and insects are playing and dancing. The Forester enters and lies down against a tree for a nap. A curious Vixen Cub inquisitively chases a frog right into the lap of the surprised forester who forcibly takes the vixen home as a pet. Time passes and we see the Vixen, now grown up into a young adult tied up in the forester's yard with the conservative old dachshund. Fed up with life in confinement, the vixen chews through her rope and runs off to freedom.

Directed by André Engel

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Elena Tsallagova The Vixen
Jukka Rasilainen The Forester
Michèle Lagrange His Wife / The Owl
Hannah Esther Minutillo The Fox
David Kuebler The Schoolmaster
Roland Bracht The Parson
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