The Last Dolphin King (2022)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 94 minuten
Alternative title: ¿Qué le Pasó al Rey de los Delfines?
Country:
Spain
Directed by: Luis Ansorena Hervés and Ernest Riera
IMDb score:
5,7 (686)
Releasedate: 13 November 2022
The Last Dolphin King plot
In 2015, Spanish conservationists released a video showing a dolphin trainer mistreating animals in Mallorca's dolphinarium. It leads to an international scandal, because this José Luis Barbero has just been appointed vice president of the prestigious Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Barbero is considered a visionary, who has radically changed the world of dolphin shows during his decades as a trainer. A man who demands everything from himself, his staff and his animals. Is the video an indictment of a system or a deliberate attempt to destroy an individual?
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Two years after the documentary Blackfish (2013) revealed the abuses at Sealand, dolphin trainer Jordi Barbero was the undisputed 'king of dolphins'. After the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta announced Barbero's arrival, activists circulated a video showing Barbero mistreating dolphins. Although dolphinariums are banned in many places due to the negative effects on the dolphins, Hervés and Riera portrayed Barbero for a long time as an upright professional who was actually dedicated to the welfare of his dolphins. In the end, not much of that remains. Not bad, but you'd be better off watching Blackfish.
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