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'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.]
Cast
* Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau - team leader
* Grard 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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