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Excelsior theater, where the Grand Duke, kept by his collaborators unaware of the real situation, is witnessing the final show of the evening: Tonio, forced to perform as an acrobat. Leonzio immediately recognizes his son and rushes towards him, but the Grand Duke shoots the teddy bear wounding him mortally. Leonzio's companions kill the Grand Duke, while Professor De Ambrosiis, though with extreme reluctance, uses the second and final spell of his magic wand to heal Tonio. Thus began the reign of Leonzio on the city, in the name of peaceful coexistence between bears and men.
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Professor De Ambrosiis, the Grand Duke's sorcerer and ex-astrologer who he sacked for having predicted the fall of his kingdom. He possesses a magic wand, which can however be used only twice and which he retains to heal himself if he becomes ill; Professor De Ambrosiis, however, is forced to perform a spell to save the bears and himself from the attack of the boar army of the Sire of Molfetta, cousin and ally of the Grand Duke: this spell consists in causing the boars to swell until they then explode in the sky.
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Leonzio surprises his son Tonio) and organizes wild parties in a hidden palace, then stealing from Professor De Ambrosiis a second magic wand that he had built for himself. The chamberlain, in his thirst for power, comes to mortally wound Leonzio when he, along with his faithful, goes out to sea to fight a terrible sea snake that threatens the city; But Salnitro is immediately killed by the bear Jasmine, the only one to have noticed his machinations.
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