Darwin’s Nightmare

Hubert Sauper
  • Austria, Belgium, France
  • 2004
  • 107min
  • 35mm
  • Color
DMZ Choice

Synopsis

Sometime in the 1960's, in the heart of Africa, a new fish was introduced into Lake Victoria as a scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, went on to extinguish almost the entire stock of the lake’s native fish species. The new fish multiplied so fast that today its white fillets are exported all around the world. This booming multinational industry of fish and weapons has created an ungodly globalized alliance on the shores of the world’s biggest tropical lake.

Director

  • Hubert Sauper
    Hubert was born in a village of Tyrol, Austrian Alps. He lived in Great Britain, Italy, the USA, and for ten years in France. He studied film directing in Vienna (Univ. of Performing Arts) and in Paris (Univ. de Paris VIII.) and graduated B.A.(Mag. art). Hubert teaches film classes in Europe and USA. The last two documentaries he wrote and directed were awarded twelve International Film Prizes. As an actor he played in several shorts and two feature length films.

    Darwin’s Nightmare (2004)
    Alone with Our Stories (2000)
    Kisangani Diary (1998)
    Lomographer’s Moscow(1995)
    So I Sleepwalk in Broad Daylight (1994)

Credits

  • Director  Hubert Sauper
  • Producer  Edouard MAURIAT, Antonin SVOBODA, Martin GSCHLACHT, Barbara ALBERT, Hubert TOINT, Hubert Sauper
  • Writer  Hubert Sauper
  • Cinematographer  Hubert Sauper
  • Editor  Denise VINDEVOGEL
  • Sound  Veronika HLAWATSCH

Production Company

  • Production Company  Celcelluloid Dreams luloid Films

Distributor/World Sales

  • Distributor/World Sales  Celcelluloid Dreams Duloid Films
  • Address  2 Rue Turgot, 75009 Paris,France
  • Tel  33 1 4970 0370
  • Fax  33 1 4970 0371
  • E-mail  johan@celluloid-dreams.com