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    Microcosmos

    Microcosmos

    "15 years of research. 2 years of equipment design. 3 years of shooting. One great movie to restore your sense of wonder."

    1996

    1:20:07

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    7.5/10 (237)

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    Microcosmos

    Genre

    Documentary

    Plot

    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

    Marie Pérennou

    Writers

    Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou,

    Stars

    Jacques Perrin,