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Microcosmos
Original title: Microcosmos : Le peuple de l'herbe
15 years of research. 2 years of equipment design. 3 years of shooting. One great movie to restore your sense of wonder.
7.6261 votes19961h 20mReleased
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.
- Director
- Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
- Released
- 6 September 1996
- Studio
- Galatée Films, France 2 Cinéma, Bac Films, Delta Images
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