Description
1 x 60'
Blizzard Productions
The fabulous saga of the bear's return to the French Pyreneans. They call him "the gentleman", as a mark of respect. Since history began, he has stood at the heart of popular culture in the Pyrenean mountains, watching unseen as humans pass by on another slope, in another world.
This is the story of his life, of the men who have hunted him, who fear him, who love him so much that they dragged him back from the brink of extinction. He is the Pyrenean bear. For the first time, we can share in the private life of this rare, legendary species, almost impossible to observe.
Shot over 6 consecutive years, On Bear Mountain presents the fabulous saga of the bear's return to the French Pyrenees. It is the only eyewitness account of both the purely animal (ecological and biological) and sociological aspects of this experimental reintroduction.
The two tales finally merge: the "official" story of the bears brought from Slovenia and the people who fought for or against their reintroduction, and the private lives of the animals and their cubs in the high forest, with exclusive footage of their "marriages", feeding habits, hibernation and play. Set against the breath-taking vistas of the Pyrenees, the accounts fuse into a shared experience, a captivating, emotional insight into one of Europe's few remaining wild ecosystems, where conservation is a matter of life and death for endangered species.