Sacred Forest
A Feature film of
Produced by
Production year1953
French release25/03/1955
Runtime1 h 8 min
Synopsis
This documentary film, six thousand feet long, describes the expedition by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau and friends to the country of the black Toma tribe in New-Guinea. The producer had previously traversed this country and brought back several short films. He was accompanied this time by cinema technicians, ethnologist and a specialist in black magic. The aim of the expedition was to find and record the rites and fetishes of the Toma tribes, notably their initiation ceremonies and the sacrifice of animals which is held in pratically the heart of the sacred forest...
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producers : Productions Claude Dolbert, Les Productions Joëlle, Codo-Cinéma
- French distribution : Les Films Hustaix
Full credits (3)
- Executive Producers : Claude Dolbert, Jean Velter
- Director of Photography : Jean Fichter
- Narrator : Gérard Philipe
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1953
- French release : 25/03/1955
- Runtime : 1 h 8 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 13869
- Visa issue date : 25/03/1955
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
