Films

... and in the meantime he fights some blood-thirsty wolves in the Hungarian forests. The wolves were made blood-thirsty by us of course…

In the last work of the famous Italian director Renzo Martinelli it is Rutger Hauer playing Frederick Barbarossa who, whilst working on occupying Milan, takes some time to hunt for wild boars in the forests. Certainly it was the Lali/Lizi tandem that made the stunts and the replicant himself sweat a little...

In Hungary Gabor Csupo’s (the father of the Simpson”s) fantasy called the Secret of Moonacre was opening in November 2009. All animals in the movie were trained and supplied for the production by the HORKAI Animal Training Center.

We worked on this award-winning three chapter natural history movie in 2000 and 2001 high in the Austrian Alps. The pack of wolves in the movie was not even one year old at the time of the shooting and they have lost their alpha male due to an unfortunate accident. The shooting toke place in sometimes extreme circumstances: it was well under -25 degree Celsius and a wind of app. 120 km/h.  One of our trainers, Adam shot his famous picture entitled “Wolves in the snowstorm” there. The picture won the incredible 2nd place at the Photo of the year 2002 competition organized by the Hungarian Association of Journalists. We worked also with foxes in the movie: in the clip you can see the moments after birth, when the mother is taking newborns to her. (Die Alpen - Im reich des Steinadlers - Diredtor/producer: Klaus Feichtenberger - Universum/ORF, 2001)

We worked on this award-winning three chapter natural history movie in 2000 and 2001 high in the Austrian Alps. The pack of wolves in the movie was not even one year old at the time of the shooting and they have lost their alpha male due to an unfortunate accident. The shooting toke place in sometimes extreme circumstances: it was well under -25 degree Celsius and a wind of app. 120 km/h.  One of our trainers, Adam shot his famous picture entitled “Wolves in the snowstorm” there. The picture won the incredible 2nd place at the Photo of the year 2002 competition organized by the Hungarian Association of Journalists. (Die Alpen - Im reich des Steinadlers - Diredtor/producer: Klaus Feichtenberger - Universum/ORF, 2001)

The long hours of training was not in vain… on this video you can see the actual performance of running along the speed track (Blood & Chocolate - Director/Main actors – produced by: Katja von Garnier, Olivier Martinez, Hugh Dancy - Lakeshore Entertainment, 2005)

The filming of Blood and Chocolate was made with the participation of 21 wolves (3 packs) for more than 40 days: training took more than 2 months. The main characters in the movie are played by such starts as Olivier Martinez, Agnes Bruckner or Hugh Dancy. All of them had to have a close relationship with the wolves: Hugh Dancy’s leg – that of course was protected against serious bites – was torn by a raging wolf. They were happy to find the time during the training period to play and mingle with the wolves. However Olivier Martinez’s favorite animal was the 6 month old brown bear that as though was not playing in the movie but was taken to Romania with us for at this age 3 months of work left out in the training period cannot be made up for later.   (Blood & Chocolate - Director/Main actors – produced by: Katja von Garnier, Olivier Martinez, Hugh Dancy - Lakeshore Entertainment, 2005)

In 2002 the German ZDF studio shot an hour long documentary with Zoltam that was broadcasted in TV in many European countries.