Human interest
German [OV], English [ST], French [DUB]
01h32h00h00 min
Twenty "birdpeople" devoted four years of their lives to raising the migratory birds followed in the film "Winged Migration" (Jacques Perrin 2001). 
The recording technique was unique: a light motorised glider equipped with a camera flew alongside the birds, so the spectator can see the world from a bird's-eye view. To familiarise the birds with the small sailplane and people, they were surrounded by human noises from the moment they were able to hear - when they were still inside the egg. When the chicks hatch, they consider the first being they see, in this case the caretaker, as their parent: they are imprinted. A group of biologists, dropouts and adventurers explains how they were cut off from the outside world for years and developed a close bond with the geese, swans, ostriches and pelicans in the Bois-Roger in Normandy. "Here, I've cured myself of all human instincts like shame, dishonesty and nervousness," one of the caretakers says. A female colleague learned from the birds how to feel things directly, and when she returned to society, her uncompromising attitude was experienced as rigid.
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56 min (German only)
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| Original Title | VogelMenschen | 
| Genre | 
                                                                                            Human interest | 
                                    
| Produced by: | Stoked Film GmbH i.G.  | 
                                    
| Year Of Production | 2004 | 
| Duration | 01h32h00h00 min | 
| Country Of Origin | Germany | 
| Language Versions | German [OV], English [SUB TITLE], French [DUB] | 
Cast & Crew
| Director/s | |
| Cast | |
| Producer/s | tvt. postproduction & Stoked Film GmbH in cooperation with ARTE / ZDF 2004  | 
                                    
| Writer/s | Eduard Erne  | 
                                    
