ORF-E 
English
2 x 52 min
Worldwide except for Russia, France, Germany, USA and Canada

Squeezed between the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Japanese island of Hokkaido is the Sea of Okhotsk, the last and greatest unspoiled ocean in the world. The Earth and the sea are alive here. High and low tides vary by 14 meters, typhoons and tsunamis lash the shore with ten-meter waves.
You can’t get here by land – you fly in or take a ship. And so this is a wildlife paradise where animals grow bigger, stronger and more numerous than anywhere else. Focusing on giant brown bears, the world’s biggest sea eagles and the acrobatic spotted seals, this film tells of a world in a delicate balance of unbounded energy. Many grizzlies don’t hibernate here – they can dip into the thermal baths and geysers left by a ring of the world’s most active volcanoes. Later they’ll feast on the hundreds of millions of salmon – as long as the fishermen don’t take too many of the riches. If they do, the bears, the sea eagles, the spotted seals, otters and sea lions are suddenly under pressure, and numbers can decline precipitously. There’s no let-up in the survival struggle, only incredible beauty in the majestically changing seasons. The few people living here are held by the glory of the natural spectacles – like the world’s largest seabird colonies: auklets, puffins, kittywakes and guillemots; plus ravens and seagulls. Through the winter, the spring mating season to the spectacular salmon run, this film takes in the seasons of the sea otters in the kelp forests, starfish, sea urchins and snails, orcas, porpoises and fin whales, while the Amur tiger watches from the forest – before the blizzards return.

Awards: New York Festival (2019): Gold World Medal “Nature & Wildlife” (won)
Cannes Corporate Media ＆ TV Awards (2018): Gold Awards (won)
Mountainfilm Festival (2018): Camera Alpine Austria (won)

鄂霍次克海位于堪察加半岛和日本北海道之间：地球上最后和最大且未受破坏的海洋。它可以是严酷和无情的；气温下降到零下40度，台风和海啸袭击海岸。但这里也是野生动物的天堂，在这里，动物比其他任何地方都长得更大、更强壮、数量更多。
它的标志性动物是巨大的棕熊，世界上最大的海雕和杂技斑海豹。这里的灰熊并不都冬眠；有些会泡在世界上最活跃的火山留下的温泉和间歇泉里。为数不多的人类居民被壮观的自然景观所吸引，包括世界上最大的海鸟群、虎鲸群和座头鲸群。