Sky Above and Mud Beneath
| Sky Above and Mud Beneath | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Pierre Dominique Gaisseau |
| Written by | Pierre Dominique Gaisseau |
| Produced by | Arthur Cohn René Lafuite |
| Cinematography | Jean Bardes-Pages Gilbert Sarthre |
| Edited by | Georges Arnstam |
Release date | May 1961 |
Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
Sky Above and Mud Beneath (French: Le Ciel et la boue), also released as The Sky Above –The Mud Below,[1] is a 1961 French documentary film. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature[2] and was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
The film documented a 7-month, thousand-mile Franco-Dutch expedition led by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, into uncharted territories of what was then Netherlands New Guinea.[1] The expedition began in the northern region of the Asmat. The group interacted with tribes of cannibals, headhunters and Pygmies; battled leeches, hunger, and exhaustion; and discovered and named the Princess Marijke River, named after Princess Maria Christina (Marijke) of the Netherlands.[4]
Cast
- Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau - team leader
- Gérard Delloye - co-leader
- Herve de Maigret - radio operator
- Jan Sneep - liaison officer
- Tony Saulnier-Ciolkkowski- photographer
- William Peacock - Narrator (English version)
References
- ^ a b Daniel Blum, Daniel Blum's Screen World 1963 (Biblo & Tannen Publishers, 1963), 185.
- ^ "NY Times: Sky Above and Mud Beneath". NY Times. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Sky Above and Mud Beneath". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-02-20.
- ^ Kenneth White Munden, The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States, Issues 1921-1930 (University of California Press, 1971), 999.
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