Battle on the Great River / 1950

In 1946 ethnographic researcher Rouch had attempted to film a "Bangaoui," a hippopotamus hunt along the river Niger, but the results were unsatisfactory.Five years later, he returns and makes the extra effort to get it right this time.

Petit Potam / 1998

Doktor od jezera hrochů / 2010

Hipopotamy / 20147.01 voti

A few naked women and children are bathing in a river. They are being secretly observed by a group of men who, at one point, decide to approach them in a violent manner, as if inspired by the behaviour of hippopotamuses.

Flusspferde / 1993

A film by Karl Kels

Racetrack / 2014

Three female friends throw a party with an unexpected ending.The title is a reference to the Kyiv metro station Ipodrom named after Kyiv's horse racetrack and equestrian park which is located a short distance from the station.

Il maestro di canto / 1968

Hippo came to the teacher of singing, but all the efforts of the maestro do not help (neither hearing nor voice). It was necessary for the student to simply swallow the teacher, and he sang with a beautiful, alien voice.

Shoah: Four Sisters / 2018

Since 1999, Claude Lanzmann has made several films that could be considered satellites of Shoah, comprised of interviews conducted in the 1970s that didn’t make it into the final, monumental work. He has just completed a series of four new films, built around four women from four different areas of Eastern Europe with four different destinies, each finding herself unexpectedly and improbably alive after war’s end.