The Gulls
The Gulls

The Gulls

April 01, 1944 | 18 min

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.”

Genres

Documentary

Cast

Naomi Scott

Willy Peters

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