A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.

Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe (1996)
  • Rating: (5,757 votes)
  • Taglines:It's Jurassic Park in your own back yard. » 15 years of research. 2 years of equipment design. 3 years of shooting. One great movie to restore your sense of wonder. »
  • Runtime:80 minutes
  • Directors: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
  • Countries:France, Switzerland, Italy
  • Actors:
    Récitant / Narrator (French version) (voice)
    Jacques Perrin
    Narrator (English version) (voice)
    Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Genre:Documentary
  • Producers:
    Christophe Barratier
    producer  
    Michel Fauré
    executive producer  
    Philippe Gautier
    executive producer  
    Jean-Marc Henchoz
    co-producer  
    Patrick Lancelot
    executive producer  
    André Lazare
    executive producer  
    Yvette Mallet
    producer  
    Jacques Perrin
    producer  
  • Plot: A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching. Written by Will Gilbert
Microcosmos: Le peuple de l'herbe
  • User's comment: by laxy56

    The film shows some amazing pictures, the one thing it is missing is some narration that would help people understand the things they see. At least, naming the insects would be nice. Also without narration many very interesting events portrayed are likely to be either missed or misunderstood (eg a very funny shot of orchid attracting a drone by looking like a young bee queen, and many other things too).


  • Also known as: Microcosmos (Brazil - DVD title), Microcosmos (Canada - English title), Microcosmos (International - English title), Microcosmos (USA), Mikrokosmos (Finland - TV title), Mikrokosmos (Poland), Çayirin sakinleri (Turkey - Turkish title), Het leven in het gras (Belgium - imdb display title, Flemish title), Microcosmos - Fantástica Aventura da Natureza (Brazil - video title), Microcosmos - Il popolo dell'erba (Italy), Microcosmos - den lilla världen (Sweden), Microcosmos, de Claude Nuridsany y Marie Pérennou (Spain), Microcosmos: O Povo da Erva (Portugal), Mikrokosmos - Das Volk der Gräser (Germany), Mikrokosmos - gräsets folk (Finland - Swedish title), Mikrokosmos - ruohikon kansa (Finland), Mikrokosmos: Oi katoikoi tis hlois (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Mikrokozmosz (Hungary), Mikrokozmosz - A füvek népe (Hungary),

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