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Microcosmos

Microcosmos

1996 · Documentary · movie8.84 ratings

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.

in 17 passports

cast

Jacques Perrin

Jacques Perrin

Récitant / Narrator (voice)

director

Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou

where to watch

Criterion Channel

trailers

information

genres

Documentary

budget

$5.8M

revenue

$1.4M

original title

Microcosmos : Le peuple de l'herbe