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01/05/1948 Documentary 0h 8m
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Overview

A ten-minute study of wild animal life in a Swedish forest; stoat, fox, hare, and owl, who stalk and savage one another, are photographed with extraordinary vividness and intimacy. It is perhaps the most striking of Sucksdorff's animal studies, in spite of an abrupt introduction and ending.

  1. Arne Sucksdorff

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-04-03
This is a curiously constructed documentary as it starts as if it were an animation, and one rather oppressively scored by Bach too, before we join a beautifully lithe white stoat munching on a bird. It scarpers just as a wolf arrives and then that animal swiftly procures itself an unlucky white rabbit. That feast doesn’t last long, though, for an owl promptly arrives and after an off-camera struggle it emerges, airborne, with the carcass whilst our canine licks his wounded paw. The stoat, meantime, seems to have survived ok atop some branches and thence we go back for some more rousing orga...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Swedish

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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