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Inhabitants
RUSSIA · 1970

Inhabitants

Artavazd Pelechian
animal migration human-animal conflict environmental panic species equality ecological hierarchy
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Synopsis

Inhabitants depicts animals in panic: the film is mostly filled with shots of mass migrations and stampedes (some, surprisingly, filmed from a helicopter). The title equalizes the species of the earth. Artavazd Peleshian merely alludes to the presence of human beings—a few silhouettes that seem to be the cause of these vast, anxious movements of animal fear. In many ways, this film is an ode to th

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