Word: sucksdorff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Adventure. Arne Sucksdorff's nature film, a blending of terror and tenderness in the seasonal round of life in a Swedish forest (TIME. June...
...Great Adventure. Arne Sucksdorff's nature film, a skillful blending of terror and tenderness in the seasonal round of life in a Swedish forest (TIME, June...
...Great Adventure (Sucksdorff; Louis de Rochemont Associates). A pool in the forest waits in stillness at first light. The mists are bodied silences. Suddenly, a bird sings, clears his morning throat and tries again. A dewdrop tumbles from its cobweb couch. Fox cubs yawn and blink in their cozy ground, while overhead the lilies languidly unclench. On the nearest farm the cock insults creation, which unexpectedly replies. A vixen darts among the spluttering hens and carries off her breakfast...
...loveliness a day begins in the woods of central Sweden, begins a picture that with passion, awe and tender intuition takes the watcher deep into the primeval forest, and there turns him loose among the beasts of the field. The film was made under fearful difficulties by Arne Sucksdorff (Struggle for Survival, Shadows on the Snow), a 38-year-old Swede who is clearly one of the world's finest film artists...
Disdaining a soft success with trick shots and trick cutting, Sucksdorff stalked the bogs and thickets around his Swedish farm, lying in wait day after day and often most of the night in hope of catching the real right thing. He spent 72 nights in the field during three consecutive Aprils before he found the wood grouse fighting in a satisfactory light. He once waited 28 hours beneath a tree in order to capture a lynx when it came down, and he built 36 kinds of covert before he discovered an adequate way to hide and shelter himself...