Near a river, a child accidentally causes the death of his older brother. Years later, he embarks on a long journey into a fantasy world to find the star that had last lit up his brother’s face for the last time.

 

The animated film Les deux frères revisits the Rhineland myths in the light of the authors’ personal stories. A free and contemporary adaptation of the eponym legend. Les deux frères is a humanistic and sensitive tale of the rare, deep and fusional relationship between a child and his older brother. A film at the crossroads between the magical realism of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Voyage of Chihiro, the melancholy poetry of Le Rivage des Syrtes by Julien Gracq and the underground music of Nina Hagen.