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Sky Above and Mud Beneath
Sky Above and Mud Beneath
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Directed by	Pierre Dominique Gaisseau
Written by	Pierre Dominique Gaisseau
Produced by	Arthur Cohn; René Lafuite;
Cinematography	Jean Bardes-Pages; Gilbert Sarthre;
Edited by	Georges Arnstam
Distributed by	The Rank Organisation (France)
Release date	May 1961;
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,^[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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^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1962". Variety. 9 Jan 1963. p. 13. Please note these are rentals and not gross figures
^ ^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.