How was the film made?


Tame fox? What about the wolves? And how did they film the bedroom scene (that sounds wrong...) without hurting or distressing the fox?

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Does anyone know about the fox casualties ?

How did they shoot the hunting scenes, the poisoning scene etc. ..they prob. needed a couple of them.

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a) they never show a fox getting shot
b) the fox could have been sedated

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I have always wondered the same thing. Especially the part where the puma (or whatever it was) was chasing the fox. When the director yell, "CUT!" did it stop chasing her?

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The cat was actually a lynx.

People have mentioned that this movie was probably SET in France... but I doubt that. I could be wrong but I didn't think there were wolves, bears and lynx still living in France these days.
Looked much more like Canada to me... where such animals do exist in the wild.
(I do realise that these animals may not have actually been WILD ones, but in the context of the movie, they should fit into such an environment)

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I believe it was filmed in Scotland (well, for the most part) because they have a lot of the animals shown in the film. Also, the end credits mention Scotland.

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The movie was shot:
1) in the National Park of Abruzzo (Italy) for the scenes with wild animals and for the opening scene;
2) on the plateau of Retord (France) for the scenes in the forests and meadows.
Source: extras of the blue ray edition.

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Trained animals, edition tricks, fake animals (I am sure the fox that breaks the window wasn't real but a puppet), the use of certain camera angles and more than likely some digital tweaks in post-production (not much of it, though).

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There is a "making of" film called in English "On the trail of the fox"

It's in French and subtitled

The film was made largely in and the foxes were in Abrruzzi in Central Italy... took them an entire Winter to get the foxes semi-tame

There are foxes and bears in that area.... but no pumas... that was a Lynx in the film... Pumas are N and S American animals

See it was a documentary.... no cars and guns but interesting to most people with an IQ bigger than their shoe size

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There was only one wild vixen which they called Soise.... or something like that... it was the one seen when the girl first feeds the fox with the chicken leg
but it took all wintner for the second, wild live crew to get it tame enough to film that once with the girl

The others were tame foxes

There are wolves in Abruzzi

The Abruzzi bears are famous.. only 50 or so left. A sub-species of Euro Black bears I think

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