From the moment the Berlinale programme was published, I wondered whether I was really the right person to write a review of this film. I still ask myself the same question. Since I couldn't bring myself to write a background article on this topic, I turn my review into a commentary and combine the two. It's a topic that has been close to my heart for years, that pushes me emotionally to the limit with every discussion and regularly makes me cry at the mere thought of it. This does not change in Victor Kossakovsky's film Gunda. I'm also emotionally charged by the end of the Berlinale, but the tears would have flown either way. We meet the three most used animals of the western world with incredible calmness and empathy. It begins with Gunda, a recent pig mum. She lovingly cares for her piglets, who all tumble over each other and want to have a drink. We are in the barn, very close to the family and are there when the little ones see the light of day for the first tim...
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