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O, Verzamelen van Eieren in Weerwil van de Tijd (2021)

Documentary | 80 minutes
3,25 2 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 80 minuten

Alternative title: O, Collecting Eggs Despite the Times

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Pim Zwier

Stars: Pierre Bokma, Marcel Hensema and Richard Gonlag

IMDb score: 6,8 (14)

Releasedate: 20 November 2021

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From the translucent tawny eggs of the Tibetan bearded vulture to the egg of the British guillemot with its Jackson Pollock-like splashes – German ornithologist Max Schönwetter (1874-1961) collected them all. He made oology, as the science of the egg is called, his life's work. Schönwetter ordered the world of the egg while chaos broke out in the world around him on the eve of the Second World War. Archive images of the turbulent outside world contrast with re-enacted images from Schönwetter's study. The Nazis march in the street, inside he measures the eggs of the eastern bearded warbler. In this documentary, his correspondence with fellow scientists and collectors sketches the zeitgeist and monomaniac collecting spirit of Schönwetter and his colleagues.

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Ornithologist Max Schönwetter (1874-1961) devoted himself entirely to the study of bird eggs from the 1920s. He spent his free time and his money traveling, visiting museums, buying rare eggs and corresponding with colleagues, hobbyists and collectors on the subject. Shortly before his death, this led to the first edition of Handbuch der Oologie, which is still the academic standard work. Zwier combines fragments read aloud from letters to and from Schönwetter from 1922 until his death. The history of Schönwetter's monumental work parallels the darkest pages of German history. A fact that Zwier underlines with archive images that make it clear how Germany was at the time of the correspondence. Those images are regularly remarkable, especially from 1945, and sometimes a bit clumsy with sound. In between we see images of the eggs in question. An interesting idea that is not well executed because it remains too superficial to sufficiently intrigue fans of ornithology or history buffs. The quality of the voice acting is also hit and miss.

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