Carmen Zander (Germany); Nadezhda and Aliya Takshantova (Russia); Wild Women: Gentle Beasts is a feature documentary by Swiss director Anka Schmid, released in 2015.

Schmid documents the life and work of female animal tamers from four nations: Egypt, France, Germany and Russia.

[2] Wild Women - Gentle Beasts documents the life and work of five animal tamers, Namayca Bauer from France, Carmen Zander from Germany, Nadezhda and Aliya Takshantova from Russia as well as Anosa Kouta from Egypt, who, due to the political circumstances at the time of shooting was touring in Qatar.

It shows how the women have to cross their own physical and mental limits on a daily basis and that mortal danger is an integral part of their vocation.

In contrasting images of domina vs. lap cat and beauty vs. the beast the film shows how affectionate yet extremely exhausting the relationship between animals and tamers is.