Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Phoenix Learning Group, Inc.
• DVD Release Date: August 12, 2008
• Run Time: 26 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001E6TG22
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,270 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Zong Man is considered the best fisherman on the Lijiang River.  He has twelve cormorants that obey his voice and gestures.  His trained birds dive to great depths to bring him several pounds of fish every day. Each year, he raises a young cormorant and he wants this new candidate to be better than the last.  To do it, he needs an egg, but not just any egg: Zong Man must go looking for a spouse for his best bird! Here begins Zong Man's surprising story: a marriage, an egg and a birth.  We discover the secrets that have been passed down his family for generations.

This is part of the "Lords of the Animals" series, which presents amazing stories of human and animal coexistence from around the world. Discover the warm and trusting relationships and the ancient traditions, passed down through generations, that have permanently linked humans to animals of nearly every description.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars He Dances for his Cormorants, February 12, 2011

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Bob Suffolk - See all my reviews

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This review is from: He Dances for His Cormorants (DVD)

This is a superb short film. I first saw it 15+ years ago on BBC and thought it as one of the most relaxing films I'd seen. Over the years I had attemped to purchase a copy of it, only to find it in VHS at great expence from America.
A few months back I saw it for sale, on DVD, via Amazon and without considering cost placed my order. All in all, including UK import duty it has cost me about £72.00. Was it worth it? Not really as the original magic was not there. Maybe the BBC over dubbed the soundtrack supplied. However, I am not disappointed with the film, just my stupidity in spending so much to obtain a copy.

5.0 out of 5 stars Dances With His Cormorants, August 26, 2010

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Samdawg - See all my reviews

This review is from: He Dances for His Cormorants (Home Use Version) (DVD)

If you want some peace in your life order this "must have DVD" while it can still be gotten. I originally saw this program on television years ago when it first came out. The simple life of Zong Man on the Lijiang River where he lives with his wife and with his cormorants (trained birds that dive in the river to bring him fish) is just incredible. He ties a string around the comorants necks so that they cannot swallow their catch. The birds dive on fish, catch them and bring them back to Zong. After Zong's basket is filled, he removes the string so that the cormorants can catch fish and eat them. The cormorants love Zong and he in turn takes good care of them. He lives in a simple shack on the edge of the river and goes to town (when he is not fishing) to talk with other cormorant fishermen and to seek the best bloodline for his cormorants. He raises cormorants by looking for a spouse for his best bird. The warm and trusting relationship between Zong and his birds is incredible. Zong's lifestyle is incredible! Hard to believe, wonderful simpleness - very, very relaxing to think that people ever survived in this manner. You will not be disappointed in this film. I do not yet own the dvd but have it at the top of my priorities to buy when I can.