The Himalaya- A Chief's Childhood
Synopsis
Miles from anywhere in the middle of the Himalayas, a village nestles amidst its fields of barley. Its hardy peasant population eeks out a living from the salt of the Tibetan highlands. Each year, they mine and trade the salt for grain, transporting it far beyond the huge mountains, down to the lush, rich valleys of Nepal. The annual trek is fraught with danger, testing the bravery of one and all, transforming these simple mountain folk into heroic trailblazers.
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Director (1)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Galatée Films
- Co-productions : Zazi Films , BAC Films, France 2 Cinéma, Les Productions JMH
- Foreign production companies : National Studio Limited, Antelope
- Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films du Loup
- French distribution : BAC Films
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producers : Jacques Perrin, Christophe Barratier
- Adaptation : Olivier Dazat
- Screenwriters : Eric Valli, Olivier Dazat
- Directors of Photography : Jean-Paul Meurisse, Éric Guichard
- Music Composer : Bruno Coulais
- Editor : Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte
- Sound recordists : Denis Guilhem, Denis Martin, Bernard Le Roux
- Costume designer : Michel Debats
- Press Attaché (film) : Eva Simonet
- Production Designer : Jérôme Krowicki
- French Distributor : Jean Labadie
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Adventure
- Production language : Tibetan, German
- Coproducer countries : France, Switzerland, Nepal, Great Britain
- Original French-language productions : No
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Switzerland, Nepal, Great Britain)
- Production year : 1999
- French release : 15/12/1999
- Runtime : 1 h 44 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 83.030
- Visa issue date : 16/11/1999
- Approval : Yes
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby SRD
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News & awards
News (6)
Selections (11)
Awards (1)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 2000
César Award for Best Original Score : Bruno Coulais
César Award for Best Cinematography : Éric Guichard
Delegations (1)
Cesar Awards - French film industry awards
France, 2000
Composer of original music : Bruno Coulais
Director of photography : Éric Guichard
About
Eric Valli's beautiful Tibetan western evokes the end of a world, that of the salt caravans. What sort of musical approach should this sort of film take? Should you try to compose music with a Tibetan feel, running the risk of being picturesque? Or, like a translator distancing himself from a text's literal meaning in order to let its feeling surface, should you extract impressions from that music and mix them with more familiar sounds, in this way creating a fusion of styles at the expense of being musically correct? I opted for the second solution, an improbable mixture of Corsican and Tibetan voices, which, by dint of reworking, ended up melting, merging even. For me, this was the greatest joy of the whole adventure.
Bruno Coulais – Composer
