Freshwater Assassins (1947)
- Original title
- Assassins d'eau douce
- Directed by
- Jean Painlevé
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 25 min
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 16 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A 1947 documentary showing the brutal daily life of creatures in a freshwater pond. It focuses on the eating and hunting methods of insect larvae like dragonflies, damselflies, and water beetles.
educationalclinicalobservationalnaturalisticfascinatingclose-upunflinchingscientific
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