The egg is one of nature's most remarkable and versatile achievements. It’s a closed system that contains everything that is necessary for the emergence of a new living being. A more or less hard shell separates it from the outside world where death lurks. Who was there first? The chicken or the egg? The answer is clear: the egg! It evolved more than 300 million years ago. Eggs come in almost all sizes, colors and shapes. Birds, fish, amphibians or insects, each animal has adapted the eggs to its own habitat.

Each species pursues its own strategy of survival, therefore there are correspondingly many variants of the egg. The egg's shell provides the perfect conditions to nurture the new life within and protect it from the outside world. 99 percent of all animal species lay eggs - such as the ladybird, the herring, the northern gannet or the pond turtle. There is hardly an area in the world where the egg does not ensure the survival of its species.

Whether in the North Sea, on the rugged cliffs of the Faroe Islands, in the floodplain landscape of the Donau-Auen National Park in Austria or in the Kalahari dry savannah in Namibia. In contrast, the farm offers the chickens a protected habitat. But even here, the egg is coveted prey. The hen's egg is without a doubt the most famous egg in the world. But only a few people know the feat with which the chick fights its way through the shell into life. The new documentary "The Egg - Bursting into Life " by the directors Astrid Miller, Stephan Krasser and Johannes Berger puts the spotlight on the egg and shows that two eggs are never alike.

Credits
Directors: Astrid Miller, Johannes Berger, Stephan Krasser
Country of Origin: Austria

The Egg has been selected for the Wildscreen Official Selection 2022