Alexis Patri 11:12 am, December 09, 2021
Novelist Bernard Werber, who has devoted a trilogy of novels to cats, continues his interest in domestic felines in a documentary called "Happy as a Cat", broadcast on C8 Saturday night.
Guest Thursday of "Culture Media", he explains to Philippe Vandel's microphone what viewers will discover.
INTERVIEW
After his novels
Tomorrow the cats
,
His Majesty of the cats
and
The planet of the cats
, the novelist Bernard Werber declines the discoveries which he made on the domestic felines when he wrote his books.
Discoveries that he offers on Saturday at 10:30 p.m. to C8 viewers with the documentary
Happy as a cat
.
Guest on Thursday of the
Culture Médias program
, Bernard Werber explains to Philippe Vandel's microphone the idea of this documentary, co-produced between France and South Korea.
>> Find Philippe Vandel and Culture-Médias every day from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Europe 1 as well as in replay and podcast here
"The idea is to show how extraordinary cats are. Often, you think you know cats, especially if you have cats. In reality, they are even much more fabulous than that", explains the novelist on Europe 1. "Their history is fabulous, their organic capacities are extraordinary. They are really aliens who live with us. I wanted to make people aware that they are not just pets, little stuffed animals that we have at home. They really are sources of constant questioning. "
Domesticated cats before their orgiastic worship in Egypt
It is thanks to his friend Fabrice Papillon, who produces scientific programs, that Bernard Werber was able to give birth to his documentary.
"I told him that I would like to make a documentary on cats, because what I discovered while preparing my novels also deserved images. In a novel, we still miss that: seeing the cat, seeing the ancient Egyptian cats, ”says the writer.
"It was also an opportunity to do my documentation for the third novel in my trilogy."
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"Fabrice Papillon went to see different partners and he found a Korean co-production with C8", adds Bernard Werber. "So we went to shoot mostly in Korea." In this documentary, viewers will discover in particular that the traces of the first domestication of cats go back 9,000 years. They were discovered not in Egypt, but in Cyprus. Bernard Weber also explains the adoration of the Egyptians for lions, before falling back on cats. The times dedicated to them were places of sexual orgies.
The novelist also meets a shaman who believes she can communicate with cats, as well as a scientist who works on purring and its medical benefits to humans.
The documentary
Happy as a Cat
airs Saturday evening at 10:33 p.m. on C8.