Arne Sucksdorff’s short documentary observes gulls raiding nests and stealing eggs with ruthless persistence. Though presented as pure nature study, the film was widely read as an allegory of Nazism—a symbolic parable of predation and violence during wartime. Sucksdorff himself denied such intent, but remarked that “a film that is not open to interpretation is a dead film.”
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Arne Sucksdorff Director · Hilding Rosenberg Composer
First release April 1, 1944 · Produced in Sweden · Original title Trut!
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SF Studios
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Sweden
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Original title
Trut!
Original language
Swedish
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Swedish
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Sweden · April 1, 1944
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