Twenty "birdpeople" devoted four years of their lives to raising the migratory birds followed in the film "Winged Migration" (Jacques Perrin 2001).
The recording technique was unique: a light motorised glider equipped with a camera flew alongside the birds, so the spectator can see the world from a bird's-eye view. To familiarise the birds with the small sailplane and people, they were surrounded by human noises from the moment they were able to hear - when they were still inside the egg. When the chicks hatch, they consider the first being they see, in this case the caretaker, as their parent: they are imprinted. A group of biologists, dropouts and adventurers explains how they were cut off from the outside world for years and developed a close bond with the geese, swans, ostriches and pelicans in the Bois-Roger in Normandy. "Here, I've cured myself of all human instincts like shame, dishonesty and nervousness," one of the caretakers says. A female colleague learned from the birds how to feel things directly, and when she returned to society, her uncompromising attitude was experienced as rigid.
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56 min (German only)
Key Information
Original Title | VogelMenschen |
Genre |
Human interest |
Produced by: | Stoked Film GmbH i.G. |
Year Of Production | 2004 |
Duration | 01h32h00h00 min |
Country Of Origin | Germany |
Language Versions | German [OV], English [SUB TITLE], French [DUB] |
Cast & Crew
Director/s | |
Cast | |
Producer/s | tvt. postproduction & Stoked Film GmbH in cooperation with ARTE / ZDF 2004 |
Writer/s | Eduard Erne |