Three Cheers for the Whale

  • France Vive la baleine
Documentary / Short
France, 1972, 17 min

Directed by:

Chris Marker, Mario Ruspoli

Screenplay:

Mario Ruspoli

Cinematography:

Michel Boschet
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This documentary “anti-Moby Dick” is a cooperative work with Chris Marker - creator of the commentary, editing, and sound.  A lively poetic essay on the plight of whales responds to the condemnation of their fishing at a conference in Stockholm. The commentary combines a male voice as the traditional explicative and a female voice, which is intimate and evokes the whales’ thoughts. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)

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