Russia's Wild Tiger

Directed by Franz Hafner

Produced by Interspot Film

A tender nature documentary that follows a tiger family's struggle for survival in Siberia, balancing the beauty and brutality of the wild with genuine emotional investment in individual animals.

Records the battle for the survival of the big cats and reveals intimate details of their lives. The animals they prey on are also in the film: tigers couldn’t survive without sika deer, Altai wapiti, wild boars and Asian black bears. Guiding the viewer through the film, an elder tiger tells the story of his cub, born in a conservation area, the year after he leaves his mother.