Microcosmos

• 7.534 Documentary
• 1996-09-06
• 80 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Jacques Perrin (Récitant / Narrator (voice))

Director:

Claude Nuridsany Marie Pérennou

Writer:

Claude Nuridsany Marie Pérennou