The Gulls

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Documentary

Overview

Arne Sucksdorff’s short documentary observes gulls raiding nests and stealing eggs with ruthless persistence. Though presented as pure nature study, the film was widely read as an allegory of Nazism—a symbolic parable of predation and violence during wartime. Sucksdorff himself denied such intent, but remarked that “a film that is not open to interpretation is a dead film.”

Keywords

seagull
bird
nature documentary

Details

Status: Released
Release date: April 1, 1944
Original language: Swedish
Spoken languages: swedish
Countries: Sweden
Production: SF Studios
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0337251