Lion (2016)
08-07-2025, 06:24 PM
Lion ist ein australisches biografisches Drama aus dem Jahr 2016 unter der Regie von Garth Davis nach einem Drehbuch von Luke Davies, das auf dem Sachbuch A Long Way Home von Saroo Brierley aus dem Jahr 2013 basiert. In den Hauptrollen sind Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, David Wenham und Nicole Kidman sowie Abhishek Bharate, Divian Ladwa, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval, Tannishtha Chatterjee und Nawazuddin Siddiqui zu sehen.
In 1986, Saroo was a five-year-old child in India of a poor but happy rural family. On a trip with his brother, Saroo soon finds himself alone and trapped in a moving decommissioned passenger train that takes him to Calcutta, 1500 miles away from home. Now totally lost in an alien urban environment and too young to identify either himself or his home to the authorities, Saroo struggles to survive as a street child until he is sent to an orphanage. Soon, Saroo is selected to be adapted to the Brierley family in Tasmania, where he grows up in a loving prosperous home. However, for all his material good fortune, Saroo finds himself plagued by his memories of his lost family in his adulthood and tries to search for them even as his guilt drives him to hide this quest from his adoptive parents and his girlfriend. Only when he has an epiphany does he realize not only the answers he needs, but also the steadfast love he has always had with all his loved ones in both worlds.