Der Weisse Wal
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Cast & Crew
Stephan Koester
Rike Anders
Volker Anding
Rainer Bruninghaus
Ralf Mendle
Carl-ludwig Rettinger
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Synopsis
The historic adventures of a white whale that swam up the River Rhine to great public interest in 1965. The so-called Beluga whale was soon called Moby Dick by the media (named after the legendary philosophical adventure novel by Herman Melville). It has never become clear why the whale swam up the Rhine, which was very polluted at the time. It was also impossible to catch the animal, despite persistent efforts by the Dutch and German river police, which received help from a fanatical German zoo director. Moby Dick swam 400 kilometres, to the German seat of government at Bonn. Those who were sensitive for ecological symbolism (and there were not very many of them in 1965) saw a message in this: politics had to change its attitude to nature. In the years after, treaties were signed to make the River Rhine cleaner, Greenpeace was founded and the first green political parties emerged.
Director
Stephan Koester
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Released in United States 2001
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (On the Waterfront) January 24 - February 4, 2001.
Released in United States 2001
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (On the Waterfront) January 24 - February 4, 2001.)
