Ape and Super Ape
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Duration | 7.8/10 IMDb Genre Documentary Country Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1972 (1972) Writer Dick Hillenius (additional dialogue), Jan Veen (additional dialogue) Similar movies Related Bert Haanstra movies Tagline A Breath Taking Spectacle of Wild Splendor and Fury | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Otto ketting main end title music from bij de beesten af 1972
Ape and Super-Ape (Dutch: Bij de beesten af) is a 1972 Dutch documentary film directed by Bert Haanstra. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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- Otto ketting main end title music from bij de beesten af 1972
- Ape and super ape bij de beesten af bert haanstra 1972 4k
- Overview
- References
The film is also notable for featuring extensive documentary footage of the life of penguins on Antarctica almost thirty years before another documentary film, March Of The Penguins (2005) focused on the same subject.
Ape and super ape bij de beesten af bert haanstra 1972 4k
Overview
The film is a study of the differences and similarities between human and animal behaviour. The first part of the movie focuses on the behaviour of various animal species. The second half is about the behaviour of humans, often intercutting with footage of animal behaviour. In the original Dutch version writer Anton Koolhaas, who also wrote the script, provided the voice-over.
Haanstra had already shown interest in human and animal behaviour in his previous films, like Zoo (1961). Ape and Super-Ape analyzed these similarities on a much larger scale. In preparation for this documentary Haanstra and his camera crew traveled across the world for three years. They filmed animals and people in many different continents (Africa and Antarctica get extensive attention) en for scientific advice they visited the well known Dutch ethnologist Gerard Baerendts.
Haanstra would later make two other documentaries about animals: Nationale parken... noodzaak (1978) and Chimps onder elkaar (1984).
References
Ape and Super-Ape WikipediaApe and Super-Ape IMDb Ape and Super-Ape themoviedb.org