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,…
A Divided World (1948)
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.
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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…
When was A Divided World released?
A Divided World was released in 1948.
What genres does A Divided World belong to?
A Divided World is categorised as Documentary.