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0025192412820. New condition. DVD. Run time: 108 mins. Language: English. Like The Bear director Jean-Jacques Annaud s acclaimed animal picture released 15 years prior Two Brothers offers a family-friendly epic as told through the eyes of its four-legged protagonists who in this case are sibling tiger cubs Koumal and Sangha. Though a life in the jungles of French colonial Indochina circa the 1920s seemed certain the cubs are separated shortly after their birth when the notorious hunter Aidan McRory (Guy Pearce) kills their father. Koumal is whisked away to a circus where he is cruelly beaten into submission and forced to perform tricks to earn his keep. Sangha fares better at first -- he lands in the posh estate of a French government official who wants the big cat to serve as a companion for his lonely son though a series of unforeseen circumstances ultimately finds Sangha in the hands of a man determined to turn him into an aggressive prizefighter. Understandably neither tiger is hap