The last paradises
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The last paradises |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Eugen Schuhmacher |
| script | Eugen Schuhmacher |
| production | Eugen Schuhmacher |
| music |
Erich Bender Günter Fuhlisch |
| camera | Eugen Schuhmacher Helmuth Barth Edith from Dessauer Edwin from Dessauer Freimut Kalden Peter Höser |
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The Last Paradises is a German nature film from 1967. It was shot by Eugen Schuhmacher and Helmuth Barth .
background
The film is a commissioned IUCN production . Filming began in the spring of 1959 and is still one of the most elaborate in the animal film sector. The cost of this film was 1,000,000 DM. Schuhmacher and his cameraman Helmuth Barth (who later worked on the Oscar- winning documentary The Hellstrom Chronicle ) went on a seven-year journey (from 1959 to 1966) to capture the world's most endangered animal species on film. The German actor Wolf Ackva acted as narrator . There is also a book about this film (published by Bertelsmann ) that has been translated into many languages.
action
After a short animated film introduction about historical extermination, such as the dodo , the giant alk and the quagga , it went to over 60 countries and territories (e.g. Turkey , Spain , Germany , Poland , Australia , Borneo , Chile , Svalbard , New Zealand , Papua- New Guinea , India , Java , United States and Peru ) on all continents and among the most famous national parks . Species such as the Hamilton frog from Stephens Island and the Java rhinoceros were filmed for the first time.
Other scenes included recordings of animal species such as the kakapo , the takahē , the red-crowned crane , the Kodiak bear , the whooping crane , the Indian lions , the Komodo dragon , the Indri and birds of paradise . The team often had to travel to the affected regions several times and with great strain before successful camera recordings could be made. The recordings with the whooping crane in particular turned out to be particularly difficult and almost never came about because Schuhmacher and Barth did not receive permission to enter the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas . Due to the fact that the whooping crane was one of the rarest birds in the world in the early 1960s, only gamekeepers had access to this sanctuary. From time to time the cranes were supplied with food by plane. Schuhmacher and Barth took advantage of this fact and positioned themselves in a boat in a canal that ran in front of the protected area fence. When feeding, the cranes came to a wetland that was close enough to the fence and so Schuhmacher and Barth were able to take pictures of a crane mother with her young. Schuhmacher ends his documentation with the appeal to create reserves and to preserve "the last paradises" for future generations.
Name duplication
A film series with the same title has been running since 2000 by Dr. Hans Jöchler produces.
Awards
The film received the Golden Neptune at the Mountain Film Festival in Trento in 1967 .
Reviews
The Lexicon of International Films wrote: An excellent documentary film that shows animals threatened with extinction in their natural habitat . The Protestant Film Observer is also full of praise: a documentary about the last animal paradises on earth, which shows a wealth of fascinating images of rare and in some cases almost extinct animals. Definitely worth seeing for young (around 8 years old) and old! (Review No. 90/1967)
literature
- Eugen Schuhmacher (1966): The last paradises . Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh.
- Eugen Schuhmacher (1970): I filmed 1000 animals . Ullstein Verlag, Berlin.