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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.
Errol Flynn stars as an ecologist who tries to save the African elephants from extinction in this John Huston-directed film. Based on a novel by Romain Gary, the film features a cast of international stars and a story of conservation and conflict.
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- Adventure, Drama
- John Huston
- 1958-10-15
The Roots of Heaven (French: Les Racines du ciel) is a 1956 novel by the Lithuanian-born French writer and World War II aviator, Romain Gary (born Roman Kacew). It received the Prix Goncourt for fiction. It was translated into English in 1957.
- Romain Gary
- 1956
The Roots of Heaven, is the story of a crusading environmentalist, Morel, who labors to preserve elephants from extinction, but which narrative is actually a metaphor for the quest for salvation for all humanity. He is assisted in the task by Minna, a nightclub hostess, and Forsythe, a disgraced British military officer seeking redemption.
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- 1956
- Romain Gary
- Hardcover
Feb 21, 2019 · NYT Readers Voting on Best Book of Past 125 Years. Gary (1914-1980; The Kites, 2017, etc.), French Resistance aviator, war hero, and the only author to win the prestigious Prix Goncourt under two different names, overlays the plight of elephants and humans in this sprawling and ambitious novel set in post–WWII Africa.
In the heart of Africa, at a lonely bar, an idealist speaks about his feelings regarding saving the elephants and their precious species being the root of heaven.
- Adventure
Oct 2, 2020 · A novel about a Frenchman's crusade to protect elephants in Africa after WWII, winner of the Prix Goncourt. The book explores the themes of hope, idealism, reality and human nature through the eyes of various characters and their conflicting interests.
