15 years of research. 2 years of equipment design. 3 years of shooting. One great movie to restore your sense of wonder.
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.
Directed byMarie Pérennou, Claude Nuridsany
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Language
- FR
- Released
- September 6, 1996
- Budget
- $5,750,000
- Revenue
- $1,433,008
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Featuring
Cast & crew
Jacques Perrin
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
- Directed by
- Marie Pérennou
Claude Nuridsany
- Written by
- Claude NuridsanyMarie Pérennou
- Produced by
- Christophe Barratier
Jacques Perrin
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