Grass: A Nation Battle For Life

  • Merian Cooper
  • Ernest B. Schoedsack
  • 1925
  • United States
  • 73 minutes
  • no words
  • © Société française d'anthropologie visuelle
    © Société française d'anthropologie visuelle

This documentary follows the journey of the Bakhtiari, a poor nomadic tribe in Iran, as they herd their livestock up snow-covered mountain passes–barefoot–to get to the grazing lands on the other side of the mountains before their animals die from hunger.

  • Distribution : Société Française d'Anthropologie Visuelle SFAV
  • Editing : Richard Carver; Terry Ramsaye
  • Photography : Marguerite Harrison; Ernest B. Schoedsack; Merian Cooper