March of the Penguins (2005)
- Original title
- La Marche de l'empereur
- Directed by
- Luc Jacquet
- Genre
- documentary film, nature documentary
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
- Rated
- G
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 1,223 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows a colony of emperor penguins in Antarctica as they trek inland to breed. It shows their courtship and the struggle to raise a chick through the brutal winter.
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What happens
March of the Penguins (French: La Marche de l'empereur; French pronunciation: [la maʁʃ də lɑ̃ˈpʁœʁ]) is a 2005 French nature documentary film directed and written by Luc Jacquet. The documentary depicts the yearly journey of the emperor penguins of Antarctica. In autumn, all the penguins of breeding age (five years old and over) leave the ocean, which is their normal habitat, to walk inland to their ancestral breeding grounds. There, the penguins participate in a courtship that, if successful, results in the hatching of a chick. For the chick to survive, both parents must make multiple arduous journeys between the ocean and the breeding grounds over the ensuing months. It took one year for the two isolated cinematographers Laurent Chalet and Jérôme Maison to shoot the documentary, which was shot around French scientific base Dumont d'Urville in Adélie Land. March of the Penguins was released in France on 26 January 2005 by Buena Vista International France. The documentary won the 2006 Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature. On 1 June 2010, a home video release in France included the film in the Disneynature collection. It is named as one of the most successful documentaries in North America and France. A direct sequel titled March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step was released in France in 2017 by Disneynature. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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