Mommy cheetah teaches murder lessons. Nature's actually unhinged.
The Serengeti is Africa's largest nature reserve and one of its most notable inhabitants is the cheetah, also called cheetah. A young cheetah tells of his carefree childhood on the Serengeti Plain in Tanzania, thanks to his wonderful mother. She takes care of food on the shelf and with her he and his brothers and sister have nothing to fear. Lesson one: tripping the calf, lesson two: choking and biting to death, lesson three: Catching a calf yourself. Mother cheeta allows her boy to practice on a gazelle calf she has caught for them. One day, the young cheetahs will have to hunt themselves. Without Mommy's help.
Cinematography
Hugo van Lawick's decades of Serengeti footage.
Direction
Structured like a coming-of-age trauma drama.
Director
Hugo van Lawick
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Hugo van Lawick was Jane Goodall's husband and spent over 20 years filming in Serengeti.
This 1999 TV movie pioneered the 'nature documentary as family drama' format later perfected by Planet Earth.
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