| Sky Above and Mud Beneath | |
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| Directed by | Pierre Dominique Gaisseau |
| Written by | Pierre Dominique Gaisseau |
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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 |
| Box office | $1.1 million (US/Canada) |
Sky Above and Mud Beneath (French: Le Ciel et la boue, lit. 'the sky and the mud'), also released as The Sky Above –The Mud Below, is a 1961 French documentary film. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.
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. 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.
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)
See also
References
- "Big Rental Pictures of 1962". Variety. 9 Jan 1963. p. 13. Please note these are rentals and not gross figures
- ^ 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.
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