1961 French film
Sky Above and Mud Beneath Theatrical poster
Directed by Pierre Dominique Gaisseau Written by Pierre Dominique Gaisseau Produced by Cinematography Jean Bardes-Pages Gilbert Sarthre Edited by Georges Arnstam Distributed by The Rank Organisation (France)Release date
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92 minutes Country France Language French Box office $1.1 million (US/Canada)[ 1]
Sky Above and Mud Beneath (French : Le Ciel et la boue , lit. 'the sky and the ball'), also released as The Sky Above –The Mud Below ,[ 2] is a 1961 French documentary film. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature [ 3] [ 4] and was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival .[ 5]
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 .[ 2] 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 .[ 6]
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