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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.

1996 · 1 h 20 · Switzerland, France, Italy · French

  • Documentary

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 by
Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
Written by
Marie Pérennou, Claude Nuridsany

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