The Gulls
1944•18m•7.5•Released
Documentary
Arne Sucksdorff’s short documentary observes gulls raiding nests and stealing eggs with ruthless persistence. Though presented as pure nature study, the film was widely read as an allegory of Nazism—a symbolic parable of predation and violence during wartime. Sucksdorff himself denied such intent, but remarked that “a film that is not open to interpretation is a dead film.”
Director
Arne Sucksdorff
Writer
Arne Sucksdorff
Languages
Swedish
Studio
SF Studios
Cast
Willy Peters
Narrator (voice)
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