Sky Above and Mud Beneath
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Directed by | Pierre Dominique Gaisseau |
Written by | Pierre Dominique Gaisseau |
Produced by | |
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Edited by | Georges Arnstam |
Distributed by | The Rank Organisation (France) |
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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][3] and was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.[4]
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 , named after Princess Maria Christina (Marijke) of the Netherlands.[5]
Cast[]
- Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau - team leader
- - co-leader
- - radio operator
- Jan Sneep - liaison officer
- - photographer
- - Narrator (English version)
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Daniel Blum, Daniel Blum's Screen World 1963 (Biblo & Tannen Publishers, 1963), 185.
- ^ Eleanor Mannikka (2011). "NY Times: Sky Above and Mud Beneath". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Baseline & All Movie Guide. Archived from the original on 2011-05-21. Retrieved 2008-11-08.
- ^ "The 34th Academy Awards (1962) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved May 24, 2019.
- ^ "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.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1961 films
- French-language films
- French films
- French documentary films
- Best Documentary Feature Academy Award winners
- Films directed by Pierre Dominique Gaisseau
- 1961 documentary films
- Headhunting accounts and studies
- Western New Guinea
- French documentary film stubs