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The Gulls (1944)
Directed by Arne Sucksdorff
Documentary · 18m
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.”
Cast
Willy Peters
Crew
- Director
- Arne Sucksdorff
- Writer
- Arne Sucksdorff
- Original Music Composer
- Hilding Rosenberg
Details
- Original title
- Trut!
- Release date
- 1944-04-01
- Runtime
- 18m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- SV
- Spoken languages
- Swedish
- Countries
- Sweden
- Production
- SF Studios