The Living Sea

• Meryl Streep: narrator (Original Version)

Wonderful World of the Seas is an American documentary from the year 1995.

Action

The film offers a glimpse into the marine world and the diversity of living things. It is stressed that the oceans are a single GLOBAL NETWORK ocean and that life is intertwined in the seas together. The man penetrates into this habitat, and so destroys the sensitive system. But the film also shows people that work with and for the sea. Such a family is to see the lives of the seafood. Shown whale researcher, a rescue unit of the Coast Guard and a deep-sea research team. As a sort of climax is shown a type of jellyfish that is found only in a saltwater lake on Palau.

Criticism

Roger Ebert of the " Chicago Sun-Times " was restrained. Despite a Meryl Streep as narrator and the wachrüttelnden music by Sting the film was one of the weak and superficial movies in widescreen.

Awards

In 1996, the film was nominated in the category of Best Short Documentary Oscar.

Background

Filmed in the IMAX process film had its premiere in February 1995.

Wonderful World of the seas has been produced on behalf of the Aquarium of the Americas, Ocean Film Network, the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, the Museum of Science and History in Fort Worth, the Chinese National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung, Nauticus National Maritime Center in Norfolk, Omniverse in The Hague, Science World in Vancouver and White Oak Associates. The worldwide distribution MacGillivray Freeman Films took over.

Spokesperson of the film in its original version is the actress Meryl Streep.