Animals United (Konferenz der Tiere)

Picture Source: © Walter Trier

Film screening

Join us to watch the film Animals United, based on the novel by Erich Kästner, with English subtitles on a big screen as part of our summer cinema. Admission free of charge!
Germany 2010 | Director: Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe | Duration: 93 min | in German with English subtitles | FSK rating (Germany): no age restriction.
The animals in the African savannah are confused: where has all the water gone? It should have come gushing in from a mountain canyon a long time ago. Their thirst and worries continue to grow, especially since the only little water hole is being closely guarded by ferocious buffaloes and rhinos. The brave little meerkat Billy and the peaceloving lion Socrates take off in search of water. They encounter the Gallic rooster Charles, who single-handedly led a polar bear, a kangaroo, a Tasmanian devil, and two Galapagos turtles to Africa, where they are now hoping for a better life in the Okavango Delta. But even this last reserve has been taken over by humans.
The hotel owner Smith had a huge dam built and is wasting all the water for a luxury hotel. And of all places, it is here that politicians are holding a conference about the protection of the environment. So, the animals answer to this with their own conference: elephant Angie calls on everything that can run, fly, trample or crawl to defend themselves, in what becomes the kick-off to a turbulent offensive full of beastly tricks.
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