Die Kleiderordnung der Tiere

Wer trägt was und warum

Every creature from amoeba to blue whale needs a suitable outside shell. Nature provides ingenious materials and daring designs. Any fashion goes in nature as long as it fulfils its purpose.

Director: Volker Arzt

Volker Arzt has been working on TV for decades. His background is a degree in theoretical physics, but his passion is moving pictures. He made about 200 documentaries about scientific, medical or ecological topics for children and adults. The project ‘smart birds’ fits right in in with his favourite subject: cognitive abilities of living creatures – reasons for differences, evolutionary development and the part they play in daily life. Ravens and parrots for example are particularly intelligent and smart and seem to have an understanding for techniques and every-day physics. Only legend or scientific knowledge? What may be the outcome of a competition between the smartest representatives of crows and parrots? We can look forward to finding out!

Director: Robert Sigl

Robert Sigl was already working for film productions as an underwater cameraman and scientific consultant during his biology studies and training as a research diver. During this time he also realized several educational and scientific films. Since 2016, Robert Sigl has been working full-time as an author, cameraman and producer at Text und Bild Medienproduktion, whose management he took over in 2021.

Germany Egypt Namibia Spain Australia United Kingdom Canada
2018
52 Min.
German
6
Director: Volker Arzt, Robert Sigl
Script: Volker Arzt
Cinematography: Rudolph Diesel, Brian McClatchy, Bernhard Rübe, Björn Rehder, Dietmar Nill, Roland Gockel, Ireneuzs Dziugiel, Jens Klingebiel, Robert Sigl, Florian Graner, Dieter Szöke
Editing: Katrin Dücker-Eckloff, Christoph Heimerl
Music: Manuel Weber, Benni Freibott
Narrator: Till Hagen
Editor: Gabriele Conze (WDR), Christine Peters (BR), Claudia Schwab (SWR), Patricia Vasapollo (HR)
Producer: Angelika Sigl, Johann Lang
Nominations: Best Story 2019
Website URL: www.textundbild.de