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Wikipedia article
'The Little Fox', known in Hungary as 'Vuk', is a 1981 Hungarian animated film produced by Pannnia Filmstdi, based on the novel 'Vuk' by Istvn Fekete.[https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film280347.html FilmAffinity] The film is directed by Attila Dargay and written by Attila Dargay, Istvn Imre and Ede Tarbay, and released in 1981.
[https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/74913-Vuk BCDB.com]
A computer animated and widely panned sequel, 'A Fox's Tale', was released in 2008.
[https://mubi.com/films/a-foxs-tale A Fox's Tale (2008)-MUBI]
Plot
The film tells the story of a little fox kit, Vic (Vuk in the original Hungarian version), who ventures away from his family's den and, upon his return finds it empty. He concludes that his whole family left the den with the human hunter (called "Smoothskinner" in the cartoon) because he can smell him. His uncle Karak finds him, decides to keep Vic in this comforting thought instead of telling him the truth, then offers for Vic to stay with him, and Karak continues to raise him.
As Vic grows older, he develops much cunning and cleverness. Now a young adult fox, he even dares to infiltrate the hunter's house, during which he finds a vixen, named Foxy, held captive in a cage. During a stormy night, he tricks the guard dogs and other animals, as well as the hunter himself, and eventually helps the vixen escape by smashing the cage open with a loaded wagon.
Foxy joins Vic and Karak in the woods, but when Autumn comes, Vic's uncle is shot by the hunter during the seasonal hunt. Vic swears revenge on the hunter and finally accomplishes it: first by breaking into the food locker and eating up all the eggs, then taking away all the poultry from the cages while playing many jokes on the hunter's stupid dogs (which results in the two dogs becoming strays at the end). Eventually, the hunter decides to set up bear traps around his house, luring Vic with goose roast; however, the two hunting dogs fall into said traps, and the third one seriously injures the hunter himself as well. At the end of the film, Vic and Foxy have cubs of their own.[https://archive.org/details/VUK1981FeatureFilmHungarianVersionTranslatedIntoEnglishwww.savevid.com VUK 1981 (Hungarian Version)-Internet Archive]
Voice cast
* Jzsef Gyabronka -
** Judit Pogny - Young
* Teri Fldi -
* Gyula Szab -
* Lszl Csknyi -
* Erzsbet Ktvlgyi - Fox girl
* Tibor Bitskey - Narrator
* Rbert Koltai - the Hunter
[https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/movies/Little-Fox/voice-cast/ The Little Fox Voice Actors-24 Photos-Behind The Voice Actors]
English version
The English-language dub of the film, titled simply 'The Little Fox', was made in 1987 and released in the United States on home video by Celebrity Home Entertainment.[http://www.worldcat.org/title/little-fox/oclc/17969649 WorldCat] The English dub changes Vuk's name to "Vic" and his wife's name to "Foxy," although Karak's name remains unchanged.[https://archive.org/details/VUKTheEnglishDub VUK (The English Dub)-Internet Archive]Voice cast
* Steven R. Weber - Adult Vic* Corinne Orr - Vic
* John Bellucci - Vic's Father, Narrator
* Anne Costello - Vic's mother, Additional Voices
* William Kiehl -
* Les Marshak - Additional Voices
* Lucy Martin - Foxy
* Peter Newman - Additional Voices
* George Gonneau - Chester the Hunter
* Maia Danziger - Additional Voices
* Ira Lewis - Additional Voices
Home media
The film was released on VHS in 1987[https://www.videodetective.com/movies/the-little-fox/544761 Video Detective] by Celebrity Home Entertainment[https://www.worldcat.org/title/little-fox/oclc/17969649 WorldCat.org] (re-released 4 November 1994).[https://www.ebay.com/p/3102428 The Little Fox (VHS, 1994, Editors Cut) - eBay]
See also
*'The Fox and the Hound' - a similar 1981 animated film about a fox.
* List of animated feature films of 1981
* List of Hungarian films
* Pannonia Film Studio
References
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