The Bear - Film by Jean-Jacques AnnaudThe Bear 1989An orphan bear cub, a large bear alone, two hunters in the forest. The views of animals." These are the four lines sent by Jean-Jacques Annaud its producer Claude Berry to explain the draft of his film. "After the War of the fire," explains the director, I wanted to go further, try to convey the emotions common to all species of higher animal world. Avoiding that animals have behaviour modelled on those of men, affubls reasoning of midinette, with a voiceover to explain what happens.