THE PENGUINMAN

Passion and death in the ice

Television Documentary 2001   |   CH   |   52′

He died on his 22nd expedition in the Antarctica and died where his happiness was secured – near a flock of emperor penguins in the eternal ice. He was not far away from the Russian research station Mirny: a Swiss man who called himself Bruno Penguin Zehnder.

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Director
URS SCHELL

Edititing
ANGELO PRINZ
Camera
LAURENT STOOP, IGOR TSCHUPIN
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BRUNO P. ZEHNDER
Cast
BRUNO P. ZEHNDER, GUIDO ZEHNDER, KWAMI HANDY, HEATHER MAY, MALCOLM W. BROWNE, ALEXEJ MISCHIN, WALERI LUKIN, LEONID POPOLITOW

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