A Divided World
6.9(8)19488m
Documentary
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.
Director
Arne Sucksdorff
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1 review
Geronimo1967
28d ago
7.0
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 strug...
