Microcosmos
Microcosmos : Le peuple de l'herbe1996
15 years of research. 2 years of equipment design. 3 years of shooting. One great movie to restore your sense of wonder.
- Marie Pérennou,Claude Nuridsany
- 1h 20m
- September 6, 1996 · France, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Overview
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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 6, 1996
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- France, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom
- Production
- Miramax,Canal+,Bac Films,Eurimages,France 2 Cinéma,CNC,Galatée Films,PROCIREP,TSR,Urania Film,Conseil Général de l'Aveyron,Delta Images,Les Productions JMH,Sivom des Monts et Lacs du Lévezou,Crédit Agricole,Région Midi-Pyrénées,Agencie Jules Verne,Office Fédéral de la Culture,La Fondation Gan pour le Cinéma
- Cast
- Jacques Perrin
- Director
- Marie Pérennou,Claude Nuridsany
- Producer
- Michel Fauré,Christophe Barratier,Jacques Perrin,Patrick Lancelot,Yvette Mallet,Philippe Gautier,André Lazare
- Cinematography
- Thierry Machado
- Music
- Bruno Coulais
- Budget
- $5,750,000
- Revenue
- $1,433,008
- IMDb
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