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TV-Documentary on the adventurous filming of The Congress of Penguins in the Antarctic.
It all started with a vision of a lonely glacier island, inhabited only by penguins, seals and sea elephants. Up until the beginning of this century, human beings had come there and built seven whaling factories. Within 50 years they had slaughtered 170,000 whales. Then, when there were no more whales, they went away, just leaving those factories standing there - as if they would return the next day. My vision was to make this picture of destructive greed the main theme of my feature film The Congress of Penguins.
The island really does exist and it belongs to the Sub-Antarctic. It is called South Georgia and can only be reached by ship. After sear-
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ching for quite some time, we finally find a sailing ship that will take us the 2,100 kilometers across the open sea: the yacht's name is "Sol" - for the sun - and it is manned by an American crew.
Concept
Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf
Camera
Urs Siegenthaler. Dieter Meyer
Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf
Editor
Rainer Trinkler
Production
ARIANE FILM AG, Zürich
mit Schweizer Fernsehen DRS
TV Editor
Martin Dörfler
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