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DVD Details
- Rated: G
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 29, 2005
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Luc Jacquet | |
Narrated by | Morgan Freeman | |
Screenwriting by | Luc Jacquet & Michel Fessler | |
Composition by | Alex Wurman | |
Produced by | Yves Darondeau, Christophe Lioud & Emmanuel Priou | |
Director of Photography: | Laurent Chalet & Jerome Maison | |
Executive Production by | Ilann Girard |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2005 -
Best Documentary: Luc Jacquet
Entertainment Reviews:
Morgan Freeman's slick voice-over compounds a slightly plodding structure, but the dedication of the penguins -- and the cameramen -- assure your wonderment.
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Time Out
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Almost painfully straightforward.
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The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
This astonishing film, shot in the Antarctic, captures sights never seen before.
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Newsweek
A cinematic experience that is dazzlingly different from anything currently in theaters, MARCH OF THE PENGUINS captivates with its straightforward but powerful story of dogged determination, survival against harsh odds and sacrifice.
USA Today
French director Luc Jacquet and a team of incredibly brave (and heavily bundled) documentary filmmakers captured this complicated mating ritual with strikingly crisp photography that's both grand and intimate.
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Associated Press
The feeling that these creatures are brave, indomitable souls surviving unimaginable physical hardship for the sake of their families is inescapable.
New York Times
Birth, death, romance, danger: All play a role in Jacquet's homage to a remarkably endearing creature.
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Time Out
Product Description:
Coming from a French director, Luc Jacquet, the miraculous MARCH OF THE PENGUINS would have to be a love story. And so it is. The film explores the mating rituals of the emperor penguin, one of the most resilient animals on earth. Each summer, after a nourishing period of deep-sea feeding, the penguins pop up onto the ice and begin their procession across the frozen tundra of Antarctica. Walking doggedly in single file, they are a sight to behold. Hundreds converge from every direction, moving instinctively toward their mating ground. Once there, they mingle and chatter until they find the perfect mate--a monogamous match that will last a year, through the brutal winter and into the spring. During that time, the mother will give birth to an egg and then leave for the ocean to feed again. The father will stay to protect the egg through the freezing blizzards and pure darkness of winter, which would be deadly to practically any other species. Finally, with spring, the egg hatches and the baby penguins are born. Mothers return from the sea to reunite with their families and feed the starving newborns, while the fathers are finally relieved of their protective duties after months without food. This remarkable story is narrated by Morgan Freeman, whose dignified voice gives the penguins the grave admiration they deserve. But even more incredible is the photography, which shows the penguins hunting underwater, sliding on the ice, and even what definitely looks like kissing. At one point the camera even zooms inside the mouth of a penguin as it regurgitates food for its young. A story of love and, more strikingly, survival, MARCH OF THE PENGUINS is a stirring, eye-opening, and educational experience.
Description by Warner Home Video:
March of the Penguins
In the Antarctic, every March since the beginning of time, the quest begins to find the perfect mate and start a family. This courtship will begin with a long journey - a journey that will take them hundreds of miles across the continent by foot, in freezing cold temperatures, in brittle, icy winds and through deep, treacherous waters. They will risk starvation and attack by dangerous predators, under the harshest conditions on earth, all to find true love.
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- UPC: 012569751163
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