World Without Sun
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jacques-yves Cousteau
André Falco
Pierre Guilbert
Raymond Kientzy
Raymond Vaissière
André Portelatine
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his oceanauts lived for a month in 1963 in an underwater community built on a coral shelf 40 to 80 feet below the surface of the Red Sea for the making of this documentary. The main house was a star-shaped, five-room construction containing all the comforts of land life. Another house, rocket-shaped, was especially designed for a two-man team living at a far greater depth. There were also two garages, one for the scooters that propelled individual divers, the other for housing the community submarine, Diving Saucer. Additionally, there was a pen where unusual sea specimens were kept for study. Never surfacing, the men devoted their time in this silent, sunless world to oceanographic research. They trapped new varieties of marine life, charted currents, examined fauna, studied the effects of color on fish and, in Diving Saucer , plunged to the ocean floor to discover a lake 1,000 feet below the surface.
Director
Jacques-yves Cousteau
Cast
André Falco
Pierre Guilbert
Raymond Kientzy
Raymond Vaissière
André Portelatine
Pierre Vannoni
Claude Wesly
Antoine Lopez
Jacques-yves Cousteau
Simone Cousteau
Crew
Crew Of The <i>calypso</i>
Georges Alépée
Jean Alinat
Serge Baudo
Serge Bertino
Jacques-yves Cousteau
Simone Cousteau
Henri Crolla
James Dugan
Gilbert Duhalde
Frédéric Dumas
Albert Falco
Pierre Goupil
André Hodeir
André Laban
Jacques Mauger
Jean Mollard
Pierre Panier
Christian Perrien
Al Ramrus
Anne Sarraute
Jim Schmerer
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Notes
Opened in Paris in September 1964 as Le monde sans soleil; running time: 90 min; in Italy as Il mondo senza sole. Also known as Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun.
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1965
Released in United States Winter January 1, 1965
