From the imposing mating call of the red deer and the flight of the buzzard to the hunt of the fox and the micro-ecosystem on a massive oak: nature documentarist Luc Enting recorded it all for his stunning feature film Wild Heart of Holland, produced by PVPictures. The result of his efforts is an exciting, moving and often humorous film, revealing the beauty and diversity of this wild park in every season. We also watch the main characters grow up to adulthood, a path inevitably dogged with challenges. Enting: “To me, this park, in any season, has an almost un-Dutch beauty. It is the largest continuous nature reserve in northwest Europe with an incredible variety of landscapes and life. It has forests, heath, sand drifts, brooks and pushed moraines. With my film, I would like to give a new insight into its incredibly diverse nature.”
Cinematography
Seasonal transformations that'll ruin regular nature shows for you.
Sound
That red deer mating call is cinema, actually.
Direction
Enting finds drama in a fox hunt — no narration needed.
Director
Luc Enting
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Veluwe was largely created by the last ice age — those 'pushed moraines' are literal glaciers' fingerprints.
Comedian André van Duin's narration was a deliberate choice to make nature accessible to Dutch audiences who might dismiss traditional documentaries as elitist.
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