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Directed by
  
Written by
  
Director
  
Eugen Schuhmacher

Budget
  
250,000 USD

8.3/10
IMDb

Produced by
  
Eugen Schuhmacher

Narrated by
  
Narrator
  
Wolf Ackva

Cast
  
Wolf Ackva

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Music by
  
Erich BenderGünter Fuhlisch

Cinematography
  
Eugen SchuhmacherHelmuth BarthFreimut Kalden

Initial release
  
28 February 1967 (West Germany)

Music director
  
Günter Fuhlisch, Erich F. Bender

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The Last Paradises: On the Track of Rare Animals (in German Die letzen Paradiese) is the title of a German nature documentary from 1967. It was filmed by Eugen Schuhmacher and Helmuth Barth.

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Background

The filming began in spring 1959. Schuhmacher and his cinematographer Helmuth Barth (who has later worked on the Academy Award-winning movie The Hellstrom Chronicle) have gone on a 7-year travel (from 1959 to 1966) to film several of the most endangered animals of the world. It had costs of about $250,000. There is also a book reference which was translated into many languages. It was narrated by German actor Wolf Ackva.

Plot summary

After an animated introduction about the history of extinct species (e.g. the quagga, the great auk and the dodo) it has gone to 60 countries and territories (including Turkey, Spain, Germany, Poland, Australia, Borneo, Chile, Spitzbergen, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, India, Java, United States, and Peru) on all continents and to the most famous national parks. Species like the Hamilton's frog (Leiopelma hamiltoni) or the Javan rhinoceros were filmed for the very first time. Other sequences including footage of the kakapo, the takahe, the dancing of the red-crowned cranes, the fishing Kodiak bears, the whooping crane, the Asiatic lion, the Komodo dragon, the tuatara, the indri, and the birds of paradise. In particular the filming of the whooping cranes was the result of adventurous circumstances. Because the whooping crane was among the rarest birds in the world in the early 1960s there was no permission to entry the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas. Fortunately the cranes were provided with food by a plane and during that time the birds came to a wetland in the proximity of the fence. Schuhmacher and Barth planted themselves in a boat in a channel in front of the fence and were able to take some footage from a female and a chicken.

Awards

The film received awards at the Documentary film festival at Trento

References

The Last Paradises: On the Track of Rare Animals Wikipedia


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