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Overview

User Rating:
7.8/10   18,951 votes
Director:
Luc Jacquet
Writers (WGA):
Jordan Roberts (US narration)
Luc Jacquet (earlier screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
22 July 2005 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary more
Tagline:
In the harshest place on Earth, love finds a way
Plot:
A look at the annual journey of Emperor penguins as they march -- single file -- to their traditional breeding ground. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 11 wins & 12 nominations more
User Comments:
Beautiful film-making. A real crowd pleaser. more

Cast

 (Credited cast)
Charles Berling ... Narrator - Penguin Father (voice: French version)
Romane Bohringer ... Narrator - Penguin Mother (voice: French version)
Jules Sitruk ... Narrator - Penguin Baby (voice: French version)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:

Amitabh Bachchan ... Narrator (voice)
Gösta Ekman ... Narrator (voice: Swedish version)
Fiorello ... Narrator (voice: Italian version)

Morgan Freeman ... Narrator (voice: English version)
Sofie Gråbøl ... Narrator (voice: Danish version)
Hikari Ishida ... Haha-Penguin (voice: Japanese version)
Ryunosuke Kamiki ... Ko-Penguin (voice: Japanese version)
Takao Osawa ... Chichi-Penguin (voice: Japanese version)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
March of the Penguins (USA)
The Emperor's Journey (International: English title)
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Runtime:
85 min
Country:
France
Language:
English | French
Colour:
Colour
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Filming Locations:
Terre Adélie, Antarctica
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Company:
Bonne Pioche more

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When released, became the second highest grossing theatrical documentary (after Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)). more
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Spoofed in The DiCaprio Code (2006) more

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73 out of 83 people found the following comment useful:-
Beautiful film-making. A real crowd pleaser., 17 July 2005
8/10
Author: (tjackson@rcn.com) from Boston. MA

If you make the effort to catch March of the Penguins, you'll be predictably pleased for the simple fact that if it's penguins you want to see it's penguins you're going to get. Beaucoups de penguins. And you will learn plenty about these noble survivors of the coldest place on earth. If it's Danny DeVito or Burgess Meredith you came to see, you are quite off the mark. The Emperor Penguins of Antarctica survive and perpetuate their species in a frozen and surreal environment driven by instincts developed over centuries. They have mostly monogamous relationships and in the midst of this can recognize one another's 'voices'. These relationships help to organize survival. We get seemingly impossible and privileged views of their long marches across barren landscapes, complex rituals of protecting of fragile eggs in 160 mph winds, huddled in huge packs against the cold, males and females sharing food foraging duties, and chubby birds diving to great depths for fish. It's a remarkable system of survival. The French filmmakers shot on super 16mm film for one year (with 120 hours of images), which is a whole winter cycle for the emperor. They saw none of the images as they progressed. Nobody left until it was done and director as LUC JACQUET SAYS; "It took a year to recover. Re-entry is a long process." The result is, no doubt, some the most remarkable footage ever filmed on the subject. What they do, of course, to reel in their audience is to anthropomorphize these creatures. Like the recent "Parrots of Telegraph Hill" we see the penguins take on the attributes of 'love' and 'caring'. The baby penguins toddle along just like little people, except that they do so braving extreme minus degree temperatures. Miles of these cute birds march across landscapes like little wind up toys in a John Ford snow desert. The story is assisted by cloying music and narration, and the dulcet tones of the ubiquitous Morgan Freeman. But any criticism of the manipulative aspects of the film would be irrelevant in the face of the achievement. These are stunning images beautifully assembled to serve a remarkable story. If your going to get the paying public into a nature flick, this is the way to do it.

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