Microcosmos

Original title: Microcosmos : le peuple de l'herbe

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A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.A documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.

Directors
- Claude Nuridsany
- Marie Pérennou
Writers
- Claude Nuridsany
- Marie Pérennou
Stars
- Kristin Scott Thomas
- Jacques Perrin

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7.9/10

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Directors
- Claude Nuridsany
- Marie Pérennou
Writers
- Claude Nuridsany
- Marie Pérennou
Stars
- Kristin Scott Thomas
- Jacques Perrin

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 9 wins & 9 nominations total

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Kristin Scott Thomas

Narrator (English version)
(voice)

Jacques Perrin

Récitant
(voice)
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Directors
- Claude Nuridsany
- Marie Pérennou
Writers
- Claude Nuridsany
- Marie Pérennou
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Trivia
Filmed over a period of three years.

Quotes
Narrator (English version): [beginning narration] A meadow in early morning, somewhere on Earth. Hidden here is a world as vast as our own, where the weeds are like impenetrable jungles, the stones are mountains, and even the smallest pond becomes an ocean. Time passes differently here: an hour is like a day, a day is like a season, and the passing of a season is a lifetime. But to observe this world, we must fall silent now, and listen to its murmurs.

Crazy credits
In the end credits: Le Conseil Général de L'Aveyron and SIVOM des Monts et Lacs du Lévezou extend the adventure in the world of insects at the Jean-Henri Fabre Center of Saint-Léons in Lévezou, opening in 1998.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Star Trek: First Contact/Shine/Jingle All the Way/Sling Blade/Microcosmos (1996)

A nature film done by the French

The technology of the human race has finally let us truly see the marvels of what lies beneath our feet every day. I don't know how a documentary on insects could ever succeed with out some guy's deep soothing voice come in to tell us what the heck was going on but this movie proved that it can defiantly be done. Micro Cosmos actually make me feel small for not realizing what happens in the real world of insects. If you thought "A Bugs Life" was cool in terms of the technical aspects, after watching this, you will know where they got they're ideas from. I have no interest in bugs, but if youre ready to be enlightened; this will do it for you.