The Odyssey of the Bear: The Making of the Film by Jean-Jacques Annaud

How on earth did they do it? This behind-the-scenes diary reconstructs director Jean-Jacques Annaud's amazing undertaking-six years of preparation, nineteen wild weeks of filing in the Italian Alps with 180 crew members, a cast of three actors, twenty-three bears and hundreds of other animals including pumas, deer, horses, dogs, fish, birds, frogs, and even insects. Showing the sometimes dangerous, sometimes humorous situations of working with animals, this well-paced volume, filled with photographs, interviews, and anecdotes, proves to be a memorable story in its own right.