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Death by Design: Where Parallel Worlds Meet

1997
1h 10m
Documentary
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Cast

Klaus-Michael Debatin (Self)Pierre Golstein (Self)Robert Horvitz (Self)Rita Levi-Montalcini (Self)

Directors

Jean-François Brunet, Peter Friedman

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Synopsis

A guided tour into the invisible world of cells, told through a collage of metaphors. Discusses and portrays the invisible world of cells, how they communicate with each other, work together, reproduce, and die, all to benefit the larger organism of which they are a part. State-of-the-art microcinematography is playfully intercut with parallel images from life at the human scale: a hundred lighted violins, imploding skyscrapers, pieces of film on the cutting room floor. Contains interviews with noted biologists.

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