A movie with many pictures of animals in their habit very close to reality, embedded in an entertaining story: an old man finds a lynx baby, calls it Punak and rises it. All kinds of funny things will happen. When the lynx gets one year old, trappers catch him. They sell him to a circus. When the old man finds out about this, he drives to the circus and wants to get back Punak. The director of the circus only wants to sell the lynx back. The old man attacks to get enough money for buying Punak, but it takes a long time, longer, as he thought. When he comes back to the city, the circus pushed along; nobody knows where to. Punak seizes the first chance to escape and returns to the old man.
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One for the nature lovers
Leofwine_draca25 March 2018
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THE PATH OF SELFLESS LOVE is a nice nature-loving film with a semi-documentary feel. It's reminiscent of British movies likes BORN FREE and RING OF BRIGHT WATER, and tells of an old woodsman who rescues an orphaned lynx cub and raises it as his own. The pair then go on many adventures as the lynx grows to full size. It gets captured and taken to the circus at one point. If you're an animal lover like myself, there are a couple of cruel scenes that I didn't enjoy seeing (mainly the bit with the trap) but the end credits assure us that no animal was harmed during the production, so hopefully they were telling the truth. The rest is a celebration of wilderness living and animal spirit.
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