The Penguin Lessons (2024)

First release year

2024

Runtime (minutes)

112

Production countries

United Kingdom; Spain

Original languages

English; Spanish

Directors

Peter Cattaneo

Writers

Jeff Pope · screenplay

Cast and characters

Steve Coogan; Jonathan Pryce; Vivian El Jaber; Björn Gustafsson

Genres

comedy-drama

Themes

Education; Responsibility; Political Unrest; Grief

Tone and mood

Comedy-drama; Poignant

Premise and plot tags

Educator; Penguin; Pet; Dirty War

Source material / true-story basis

The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell

Reported review scores

Metacritic · score: 52 · scale: 100 · review count: 26

Production trivia

The film was shot in Spain in 2023 and in Argentina and Uruguay in 2024.; The penguin is named Juan Salvador after the Spanish translation of the short story Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

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