The Gulls
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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.”
Status: Released
Released Date: 1944-04-01
Runtime: 18 mins
Director: Arne Sucksdorff
Writer: Arne Sucksdorff
Spoken language: svenska
Genres: Documentary
Original title: The Gulls
Production Companies: SF Studios
Production Countries: Sweden
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