Escape to Mauritius

Director Libor Spacek
Country Czech Republic
Runtime 50'
Language English and Czech
Year 2009

Mark Twain once wrote that Mauritius was created as a model of Heaven. A couple of adventurers, Petra Dolezalova and Libor Spacek, discover surprising similarities between the unexplored underwater world and the life of this exceptionally tolerant nation.

There are spectacular visuals due to the topography of the place with beautiful cavities, caves and arches, and astounding grouping of different species of stone fish, scorpion fish, lion fish and moray eels. Such an agglomeration of these species is unique to Mauritius. It also shelters diversified and interesting sites with giant moray eels, titan trigger fish and reef rich in giant gorgonias and corals amongst which is found the green tree coral, more than 2 metres high.

This documentary unveils the colorfulness of the underwater world, its rules and strange symbioses. The story is woven around the most famous legend of the island, the mysterious appearance of a beautiful mermaid!