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| ZAMBEZI 2008 - 2010 | HD | 16:9 | 2x50min | 5.1 & stereo | German | English | Director & Camera Michael Schlamberger | Executive Producer Walter Köhler It’s one of the least known rivers on earth – yet it flows for over 3,500 kilometres (2,200 miles) and belongs to six countries. The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa, and along its course and its many changing moods it is a haven and a resource for wild animals and humans alike. Filmed throughout the changing seasons we follow the Zambezi from its headwaters through the gorges and waterfalls, along its floodplains as they fill with water and then dry out again with the seasons, until at last it flows out into the Indian Ocean. We witness the amazing spectacles of the wildlife that depend upon the river for life, and watch as the tribes that have lived with the river for as long as human memory go about their lives. And we also tell the story of a river that has been changed by the force of humanity, for at Kariba its flow has been channelled and harnessed into hydroelectric energy for towns and cities. But downstream, even though the flow of the river has been transformed, the Zambezi is still a river upon which life depends. The story of the Zambezi is one of constant change, of life and death – it is the story of Africa itself. ZAMBEZI is a co-production of ScienceVision, ORF, NDR, WDR, ARTE & NatGeo. |
