Die Odyssee der Großtrappen

Are Great Bustards the dodos of our time? It is all but a certainty that here is a species dwindling towards extinction. Two men, one woman and a passionate back up team are running a remarkable project in Berlin’s backyards to prevent its disappearance.

Director: Henry M. Mix

Henry is a producer, director and cameraman for natural history documentaries, and worked for a number of national and international networks, incl. NDR, ARTE, BBC, National Geographic and others. He worked as biodiversity expert for various environmental projects in Central Asia, Russia, Mongolia, Georgia and other countries. He is a board member of the German Species Conservation Foundation and was Series Producer of the so far biggest German natural history series (Wild Russia).

Director: Boas Schwarz

Boas is a filmmaker and cameraman for nature films. Even as a child, the native Black Forest animal filmmaker wanted to become an animal filmmaker. In 2007 he started working in the industry as a camera assistant and has been travelling all over the world ever since. Since 2017 he has been working for the nature film production company Altayfilm.

Germany
2021
52 Min.
German
6
Director: Henry M. Mix, Boas Schwarz
Script: Henry M. Mix, Boas Schwarz
Cinematography: Boas Schwarz, Henry M. Mix
Editing: Mirco Tribanek
Music: Sebastian Schmidt
Narrator: Conny Wolters
Editor: Ralf Fronz (MDR), Ute Beutler (RBB), Ulrike Lovett (BR)
Producer: Henry M. Mix (Altayfilm)
Website URL: www.altay.film