An August Rhapsody

Overview

Arne Sucksdorff’s debut—made when he was 23— is a lyrical short about Sweden’s late-summer crayfish fishery: night-time trapping on water, daybreak on the shore, and the rhythms of August nature rendered in carefully composed images. Often grouped with This Land Is Full of Life as one of Sucksdorff’s “hymns to the Swedish summer,” the film distills a 24-hour cycle into a seven-minute nature rhapsody.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 9, 1940

Original language

Swedish

Spoken languages

Swedish

Countries

Sweden

Production

Arne Sucksdorff Filmproduktion

Director

Arne Sucksdorff

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt3863802