The Roots of Heaven

The Roots of Heaven (1958)

Genres - Action-Adventure, Drama  |   Release Date - Oct 15, 1958  |   Run Time - 126 min.  |   Countries - United States of America  |   MPAA Rating - TV-PG
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The Roots of Heaven is a 1958 American adventure film made for 20th Century Fox, directed by John Huston and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. The screenplay by Romain Gary and Patrick Leigh Fermor is based on Romain Gary's 1956 Prix Goncourt-winning novel of the same name. The film stars Errol Flynn, Juliette Gréco, Trevor Howard, Eddie Albert, Orson Welles, Paul Lukas, Herbert Lom and Grégoire Aslan. Huston later said that Roots of Heaven "could have been a very fine film. And largely owing to me was not a good film at all."

Movie Info

Budget

$4,500,000

Tags

Heaven, The Roots

Attributes

Filming Location: Studios de Boulogne
Narrative Location: Africa, French Equatorial Africa

Alternate Titles

De wortels van de hemel
BE
Himlens rötter
SE
Himlens rødder
DK
Himmelens røtter
NO
Korzenie niebios
PL
Las raíces del cielo
CL, ES, UY, VE
Le radici del cielo
IT
Les racines du ciel
BE, FR
Oi rizes tou ouranou
GR
Opstandig africa
NL
Rădăcinile cerului
RO
Raízes do Céu
BR, PT
Taivaan juuret
FI
The Roots of Heaven
CA, PH, SG, GB, US
Коріння небес
UA
自由の大地
JP