Sky Above and Mud Beneath (), also released as The Sky Above –The Mud Below,Daniel Blum, Daniel Blum's Screen World 1963 (Biblo & Tannen Publishers, 1963), 185. 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.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.
After its Academy Award win, Embassy Pictures released The Sky Above –The Mud Below in the United States in 1962.
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)
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