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Dead Birds (1963)

ALL 10/01/1963 (en) Documentary 84 Min
  • Release
    10/01/1963
  • Production
    Peabody Museum
  • Rotten tomato
    58%
  • Original title
    Dead Birds
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

The film's title is borrowed from a Dani fable that Gardner recounts in voice-over. The Dani people, whom Gardner identifies mysteriously as "a mountain people," believe that there was once a great race between a bird and a snake, which was to determine the lives of human beings. Should men shed their skins and live forever like snakes, or die like birds? The bird won the race, dictating that man must die. The film's plot revolves around two characters, Weyak and Pua. Weyak is a warrior who guards the frontier between the land of his tribe and that of the neighboring tribe. Pua is a young boy whom Gardner depicts as weak and inept.

  1. Robert Gardner

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Producer



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  1. Robert Gardner

    Narrator

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Casts : 1 , Crews : 8

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Dead Birds (1963) 84 Min

ALL 10/01/1963 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 10/01/1963
  • Production
    Peabody Museum
  • Original title Dead Birds
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

The film's title is borrowed from a Dani fable that Gardner recounts in voice-over. The Dani people, whom Gardner identifies mysteriously as "a mountain people," believe that there was once a great race between a bird and a snake, which was to determine the lives of human beings. Should men shed their skins and live forever like snakes, or die like birds? The bird won the race, dictating that man must die. The film's plot revolves around two characters, Weyak and Pua. Weyak is a warrior who guards the frontier between the land of his tribe and that of the neighboring tribe. Pua is a young boy whom Gardner depicts as weak and inept.

  1. Robert Gardner

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Robert Gardner

    Editor

  4. Producer



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