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Microcosmos : Le peuple de l'herbe (1996)
15 years of research. 2 years of equipment design. 3 years of shooting. One great movie to restore your sense of wonder.
80 minNot RatedDocumentary
TMDb7.6/10258 votes
IMDb7.9/1012,020 votes
Rotten Tomatoes97%
Metacritic87/100
Translated title: Microcosmos
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.
Country: France, Switzerland, Italy
Director: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
Awards: 9 wins & 9 nominations total
Box office: $1,433,210
Cast
Jacques Perrin
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
Keywords
Plot:insectbiologynarrationantbiotopenaturewoman directornature documentarypoetic documentarydocumentaryno dialoguescienceinsectsfrench
