Maya the Bee
The first adapation of the beloved bee starring real insects!
- 1926
- 1h 16m
Rating: 8.0 out of 10TMDB(1 votes)
Overview
Maya the Bee is a dramatised documentary film displaying living bees and other forest animals interacting with each other. Based on the book by Waldemar Bonsels, he also assisted himself in cinematography, along with A.O. Weitzenberg. The film was restored in 2004, after a decent copy (nitrate) of this film survived in the Finnish Film Archives possession and was done by Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv with the support of Waldemar Bonsels-Stiftung.
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Based on
Based on The Adventures of Maya the Bee
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Adolf Otto Weitzenberg
Details
- Directors
- Writers
- Curt ThomallaWriter
- Waldemar BonselsCharacters
- Original title
- Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 8, 1926
- Original language
- German
- Countries
- Germany
Production
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