The Gulls

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.”

Genre:

Documentary

Duration:

18 min

Actor:

Willy Peters

Quality:

HD

Director:

Arne Sucksdorff

Release:

1944

Country:

Sweden

IMDb:

7.5