

Microcosmos
15 years of research. 2 years of equipment design. 3 years of shooting. One great movie to restore your sense of wonder.
A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5.8M
- Box office
- $1.4M
- Language
- French
- insect
- biology
- narration
- ant
- biotope
- nature
- woman director
- nature documentary
- poetic documentary
- documentary
- no dialogue
- science
Top billed cast
Behind the camera
Director
Music
Produced in
France, Switzerland, Italy
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereGChicago International Film Festival9 Oct 1996
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU16 May 1997
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalG12 Jun 1997
CanadaCA
- PremiereGToronto International Film Festival7 Sept 1996
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical14 May 1998
CzechiaCZ
- TheatricalU12 Jun 1997
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical8 Aug 1997
EstoniaEE
- Theatrical13 Nov 1998
FinlandFI
- TheatricalS5 Dec 1997
FranceFR
- PremiereCannes Film Festival20 May 1996
- TheatricalTP20 Nov 1996
GermanyDE
- Theatrical031 Oct 1996
Hong KongHK
- Theatrical26 Jun 1997
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Microcosmos was released on 6 September 1996.
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