Microcosmos
Synopsis
An hour and a quarter on an unknown planet : the Earth seen on a minute scale. The inhabitants : outlandish creatures, insects and other grass and water animals. The scenery : the impenetrable forests of grass, dew-drops as big as balloons... The film explores this new world - an ordinary meadow - over the course of a summer's day : a day, a night and a second dawn. But a single day is like a season in this minute world. A whole decade for an insect whose life-span can be counted in weeks.
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Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Galatée Films
- Co-productions : France 2 Cinéma, BAC Films, Delta Images
- Foreign production companies : Urania Film, Les Productions JMH, RTS - Radio Télévision Suisse
- Film exports/foreign sales : France tv distribution, Les Films du Loup
- French distribution : BAC Films
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Jacques Perrin
- Directors of Photography : Claude Nuridsany, Marie Perennou, Hugues Ryffel, Thierry Machado
- Music Composer : Bruno Coulais
- Editors : Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte, Florence Ricard
- Sound recordists : Bernard Leroux, Philippe Barbeau
- Line Producers : André Lazare, Patrick Lancelot, Philippe Gautier, Michel Fauré
- Press Attachés (film) : Eva Simonet, Nathalie Gorgon
- French Distributor : Jean Labadie
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Documentary
- Themes : Science and nature
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Switzerland, Italy, France
Box-office & releases
News & awards
News (8)
Selections (7)
Punta Del Este - International Film Festival
Uruguay, 1998
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Awards (2)
Delegations (1)
About
"Microcosmos" was one of the unexpected surprises of the 1996 Cannes Festival. It was totally different from the films normally screened there and the quality of the footage of this "microcosmic" realm was exceptional. The whole world started expressing interest in the film. In Switzerland, it met with phenomenal success, second in the box-office even before its French release. In Germany, with 600,000 tickets sold, "Microcosmos" was one of the top French films of the last five years. It subsequently met with equal success in many other countries : South Korea, Greece, Great Britain, Lebanon... In September 1997, it will be released in Japan. "Microcosmos" has made an impact all over the world. This unusual, attractive, and unexpected film has become a phenomenon. it was a genuine surprise. We had always believed in it but we were the only ones ! We knew that the film had enormous potential but, unfortunately, each films is a special case. A film's career abroad does not depend solely on its merits. For everything to come together to make it a worldwide hit, it needs luck too. "Microcosmos" had luck."
(Jacques-Eric Strauss - Président Films)
