Serengeti by Reinhard Radke, the synopsis

The Seregenti: a land of endless spaces, classified by UNESCO World Heritage Centre, stretches many hundred miles from Tanzania to the northern outline of Kenya conservation areas.

From the broad plains under the The Ngorongoro Crater  highlands, over the central Serengeti thorn bush lands, as far as to the luxuriant pastures in the North, attracting yearly two millions gazelles and zebras, over about 25.000 square kilometers lands.

Serengeti is the measureness dramatic arena offering for centuries the same untarnishable, violent and pure show on life and death.

Serengeti, Massai Mara and Ngorongoro celebrate every year Earth's essential strength, the  imponderable raw life pulse.

Wild and moving spectacle of Gnus, Zebras and Antilopes which traverse every year almost the entire plains in search of food, following the same migration paths through extreme droughts and rain plains. Aspiring, when the sun becomes a plague, to abundant and wet plains.

 

Tight on their trail: their predators and ancient foes: lion, leopard, cheetah and hyenas.

Nowhere on the planet does the struggle for life offer  such poignant show and enthralling sights.

In the coming decades and centuries, men will not travel to view marvels of engineering, but they will leave the dusty towns in order to behold the last places on earth where God's creatures are peacefully living. Countries which have preserved such places will be envied by other nations and visited by streams of tourists."

Bernhard Grzimek

http://www.serengeti-derfilm.de/

Crew

Written and directed by                    Reinhard Radke

Slow motion shot by                        Ivo Nörenberg

Additional takes                              Oliver Goetzl, Simon Werry, Peter Glaub

Editing                                          Klaus Müller

Music                                           Martin Lingnau, Ingmar Süberkrüb

Narrator                                        Hardy Krüger jr.

Sound Design                                 Kai Storck

Sound editing                                 Richard Borowski

Executive Producer                          Tom Synnatzschke

Produced by Jörn Röver Studio Hamburg DocLights and Christian Kux Intervista Digital Media

Coproducer Benjamina Mirnik         Universum Film

World premiering release in Germany February 3rd 2011