
The Wetland
A documentary about the diversity of bird life in the wetlands of eastern Slovakia and the work of bird ringers.
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- Craft · Drama · Tension
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A documentary about the diversity of bird life in the wetlands of eastern Slovakia and the work of bird ringers. This is not just a film about the diversity of bird life, it is also about bird ringers and their assistants: an SBS guard at a nuclear power plant, an employee of the East Slovak Museum, a pensioner, an employee of the Slovak Karst National Park, a veterinarian, a zoo employee, a zoologist from the museum, a gas station attendant from Rimavská Sobota, an unemployed person, students from Comenius University in Bratislava, who spend more than 100 days a year at the station below Turniansky Castle.
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- Release date
- May 8, 2020
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- Language
- Slovak
- Country
- Slovakia
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