A Million Birds at the Sahara's Edge
Year : 1977
Length : 52 minutes
Directed : Emmanuel Cousin
Written : Jean-Pierre Sergent & Jacques Sansoulh
Scientific advisor : Jacques Trotignon
Cinematography: Lionel Cousin
Music : Guy Boulanger
A production : Emmanuel Laurent
Co-producer : Cat's Films
Format : 16mm Color
Versions : International
In Mauritania, the Banc d'Arguin on the edge of the Sahara desert is one of the world largest bird preserves. These thousands of square miles of shallow water dotted by islands are inhabited by a few hundred nomads, the Imraguens, who live of mulet f ishing. A region that is a precious vestige of the time when the Sahara was not a desert. For the first time a film crew followed an ornithological mission of Paris Natural History Museum into one of the world's most isolated areas, a region of fabulous natural wealth where earth, sea and sky are one.