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The Cove(Movie, 2009)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 32min | Genre: Documentary
The CoveRating: 4.0/5 (with 263263 votes)
The Cove is a 2009 American documentary film directed by Louie Psihoyos that analyzes and questions dolphin hunting practices in Japan. It was awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2010. The film is a call to action to halt mass dolphin kills and captures, change Japanese fishing practices, and inform and educate the public about captivity and the increasing hazard of mercury poisoning from consuming dolphin meat. Psihoyos is a former-National Geographic photographer and a co-founder of the Oceanic Preservation Society, and the film is presented from an ocean conservationist's point of view. Portions were filmed secretly in 2007 using underwater microphones and high-definition cameras disguised as rocks. The film highlights the fact that the number of dolphins killed in the Taiji dolphin drive hunt is several times greater than the number of whales killed in the Antarctic, and asserts that 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan every year by the country's whaling industry. The migrating dolphins are herded into a cove where they are netted off. The young and pretty are sold to oceanariums and dolphinariums around the world, and the rest are brutally slaug... ()
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Awards & Nominations for The Cove

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film Genesis Awards Audience Award Documentary

About The Cove

The Cove tells the amazing true story of how an elite team of individuals, films makers and free divers embarked on a covert mission to penetrate the hidden cove in Japan, shining light on a dark and deadly secret. The shocking discoveries were only the tip of the iceberg.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 21 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 03/09/2010 (World premiere: 07/31/2009)
Cast: Ric O'Barry, Hayden Panettiere, Isabel Lucas, Mandy-Rae Cruickshank, Paul Watson, Scott Baker, Louie Psihoyos
Director: Louie Psihoyos
Producer: Fisher Stevens
Composer: J. Ralph
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Скритият залив"
"A Enseada"
"Meren salaisuus"
"La baie de la honte"
"O kolpos ton delfinion"
"Uvala"
"Az öböl"
"La baia dove muoiono i delfini"
"Za kôvu"
"Zatoka delfinów"
"Koy"

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