A goat king dies on a mountain he was born to conquer. Nature doesn't do encores.
A mountain landscape, and in the distance, a tiny dot with two gigantic horns. This is the realm of the Alpine Ibex. Our film tells the life story of Buck, a single dominant male. The film opens with his dying moments in Italy’s Gran Paradiso National Park, in the shadow of the same summit that witnessed his birth. In the flashbacks that follow, we relive the most important moments of his life.
Cinematography
Vertical cliff face footage that'll give you vertigo
Direction
Family filmmaking trio spent years tracking one ibex
Sound
Horns clashing like nature's own percussion section
Director
Véronique Lapied
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Lapied family—Véronique, Anne, and Erik—are a French filmmaking dynasty specializing in Alpine wildlife, having documented the region for over four decades.
Gran Paradiso was Italy's first national park, created in 1922 specifically to protect the Alpine ibex from extinction after hunting reduced their numbers to roughly 60 individuals.
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