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Serengeti Shall Not Die

1959 · 85 min

A sweeping, earnest nature documentary that immerses you in vast African landscapes, blending wonder with a quiet sense of loss.

Tagline
Savage Africa in the raw!
Overview
The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s, the Tanzanian National Park Administration wanted to fence in the protected area around the Ngorongoro Crater. Bernhard and Michael Grzimek were invited by the national park administration in 1957 to get a precise picture of the animal migrations and to provide the national park administration with the values ​​they needed for their project. Using a new counting method with two airplanes, the Grzimeks found out that the migration of the herds was different than assumed.

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Tone
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • nature
  • environment
  • exploration
  • survival
  • grief
Places
  • wilderness
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour2
Realism9
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Bernhard Grzimek
Written by
Bernhard Grzimek
Starring
Hermann Rockmann, Bernhard Grzimek, Holger Hagen, Michael Grzimek
Music
Wolfgang Zeller
Cinematography
Alan Root, Hermann Gimbel
Runtime
85 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German

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