Movies: Arne Sucksdorff

A woman flees to avoid rumors of promiscuity, but is trailed by a reporter who wants to expose her dark past....

A vixen mother invades a chicken coop to provide food for her cubs. She continues to raid the coop until she is shot by a farmer. The cubs are attacked by the farmer and only one survives. An otter trapped in a burrow is rescued by 10-year-old Anders...

Life for Richard Forbush, brilliant biology student and conceited philanderer, is one long round of eat, drink and be merry. But his decision to accept a six-month research post in the Antarctic, making the first detailed study of a penguin colony, c...

Göte is a young teen who seems to be at odds with his family and may not know his own mind that well either. Discontented and rebellious, Göte joins up with two mean-spirited game poachers in spite of the fact that he loves animals and nature. This c...

A film about the muria people of the Bastar jungle in central India. It was entered into the 1958 Cannes Film Festival....

A lyrical short documentary about animal life in a Swedish forest....

Homeless children in the slums of Rio are driven out of their temporary shelters by ruthless gangsters in this somber drama. The kids survive by shining shoes, stealing, and cutting the strings of the kites to sell them later to others. Tired of life...

A ten-minute study of wild animal life in a Swedish forest; stoat, fox, hare, and owl, who stalk and savage one another, are photographed with extraordinary vividness and intimacy. It is perhaps the most striking of Sucksdorff's animal studies, in sp...

A short film about Stockholm. Sweden's first Oscar, 1949 Best Short Subject, One-Reel....

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A short about Romanis in Sweden breaking up camp and moving on....

Ragnhild, a girl in the Norwegian mountains, is daydreaming when she should be fetching milk....

A short documentary by Arne Sucksdorff about a village in India. Won the Special Prize of the Jury in Cannes 1952....

A short drama documentary about the life of a Sami family in the northernmost part of Sweden, Lappland....

A documentary about the fishing industry on the west coast of Sweden....

A nature documentary about the gulls, who are terrorizing other birds by killing their kids and raiding their nests for eggs. Often interpreted as an allegory of Nazism....

Short documentary about people who live and work by the river Jhelum in Kashmir....

Documentary on lobster fishing....

A nature documentary about the predators in the Swedish winter mountains: the owl, the bear and man....

A hunter tracks down various animals in the forest....