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Lion(Movie, 2016)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 58min | Genre: Drama
LionRating: 4.1/5 (with 30033,003 votes)
Lion is a 2016 Australian biographical drama film directed by Garth Davis (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Luke Davies based on the 2013 non-fiction book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley. The film stars Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, and Nicole Kidman, as well as Abhishek Bharate, Divian Ladwa, Priyanka Bose, Deepti Naval, Tannishtha Chatterjee, and Nawazuddin Siddiqui. It tells the true story of how Brierley, 25 years after being separated from his family in India, sets out to find them. It was a joint production betw... ()
Movie poster of Lion

Where to watch Lion (cinema/streaming/download)?

"Lion" is currently available on 4 providers. Lion can be streamed free of charge on Netflix and VIDEOBUSTER.de (as part of a subscription), can be rented on Amazon Instant Video, Apple / iTunes Store and VIDEOBUSTER.de (SD/HD/4K) and Lion can also be purchased at Amazon Instant Video, Apple / iTunes Store and VIDEOBUSTER.de (as download from the website or as Blu-ray Disc/DVD).

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Available languages: German, English (Original)
Available subtitles: German
Duration: 1h 59min
Genres: Preisgekrönte Dramen / Dramen / Buchverfilmungen / Filme nach wahren Begebenheiten
Keywords: Inspirierend / Bewegend
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Amazon Instant Video
Available languages: Hindi, English
Available subtitles: German
Duration: 1h 59min
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Duration: 1h 59min
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Amazon Instant Video
Available languages: Hindi, English
Available subtitles: German
Duration: 1h 59min
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Apple / iTunes Store
Duration: 1h 59min
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Also available at Amazon.de on: DVD Blu-ray

Awards & Nominations for Lion

AACTA International Award for Best Supporting Actor AACTA International Award for Best Supporting Actress AACTA Award for Best Film AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in Film AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role AACTA Award for Best Cinematography AACTA Award for Best Costume Design AACTA Award for Best Direction AACTA Award for Best Editing AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score AACTA Award for Best Production Design AACTA Award for Best Sound Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama Academy Award for Best Original Score Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for Best Picture AACTA Award for Best Film AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role AACTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in Film AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role AACTA Award for Best Cinematography AACTA Award for Best Costume Design AACTA Award for Best Direction AACTA Award for Best Editing AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score AACTA Award for Best Production Design AACTA Award for Best Sound

About Lion

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

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Additional Information

Based on: "A Long Way Home" (find it on Amazon)
Main subject: Saroo Brierley (Person)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: Bengali (BN), English (EN), Hindi (HI)
Translated into 37 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Bosnian (BS), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Estonian (ET), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Malay (MS), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 02/23/2017 (World premiere: 11/24/2016)
Appearing Characters: Saroo Brierley, Guddu Khan, Kamla Munshi, Shekila Khan, Sue Brierley, John Brierley, Mantosh Brierley, Lucy
Dedicated to: Guddu Khan
Cast: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Priyanka Bose, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Deepti Naval, Abhishek Bharate, Divian Ladwa, Benjamin Rigby, Sunny Pawar, Menik Gooneratne, Riddhi Sen, Kaushik Sen, Rita Boy, Keshav Jadhav, Khushi Solanki, Todd Sampson, Daniela Farinacci, Pallavi Sharda, Sachin Joab, Arka Das, Emilie Cocquerel
Director: Garth Davis
Producer: Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Angie Fielder
Screenwriter: Luke Davies
Director of Photography: Greig Fraser
Performer: Sia
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"A Long Way Home"
"Lion: Uma Jornada para Casa"
"Lion – Der lange Weg nach Hause"
"סארו : הדרך הביתה"
"LION ライオン 25年目のただいま"
"LION/ライオン 〜25年目のただいま〜"
Budget: 12,000,000 USD
Revenue: 140,312,928 USD (= 1,169%)

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Other movies with this title: Lion (IN, 2006), Lion (GB, 2014), Lion (IN, 2015), Lion (FR, 2019)

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