Overview
The film shows Catherine Destivelle's trip to Dogon Country, in Mali, where she will make spectacular free solo rock climbing ascents in the sun-warmed cliffs of Bandiagara. Destivelle is accompanied on this trip by a friend climber, Lucien Abbet. A film by Pierre-Antoine Hiroz produced in 1987 by Paradoxe and also featuring Tidjani Koné, Ibrahim Dolo, and the Dogon inhabitants of the Bandiagara Escarpment. The film won the Genziana D'argento for best free climbing film at the Trento Film Festival in 1987.
Production
Paradoxe Productions
Cast & Characters
Catherine Destivelle
Self
Lucien Abbet
Self
Tidiani Koné
Self
Ibrahim Dolo
Self
Directors & Crew
Pierre-Antoine Hiroz
Director
Pierre-Antoine Hiroz
Writer
Screenshots & Stills
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