Under extremely harsh filming conditions of up to minus 40 degrees Celsius, Luc Jacquet has created a moving film event full of warmth and poetry that provides insights into a spectacular, unknown world. With over 2 million enthusiastic moviegoers, The Journey of the Penguins became the most successful nature documentary in German cinema history.
In the inhospitable cold on the edge of Antarctica, one steadfast creature defies all of nature's adversities - the emperor penguin. French biologist and filmmaker Luc Jacquet spent a whole year observing the extraordinary life cycle of these fascinating birds, their elegant movements as they hunt fish and theirTheir elegant movements while hunting fish underwater, their clumsy gait during the long, arduous march across the ice, their love dances, the hatching of their young and their perpetual, sometimes cruel struggle for survival. Fates that touch and images that take your breath away!
With over 2 million enthusiastic moviegoers, The Journey of the Penguins has become the most successful nature documentary in German cinema history. The Wiesbaden Film Rating Board awarded the Oscar®-winning film the rating "Especially Valuable".
