Off the Edge (1976)
- Directed by
- Michael Firth
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- New Zealand
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A group of skiers and hang gliders take on New Zealand's Southern Alps. The film follows their high-risk pursuits with a loose narrative woven through the documentary footage.
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What happens
Off the Edge is a 1976 New Zealand documentary film directed by Michael Firth. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film features backcountry skiing, extreme skiing and hang gliding in the Southern Alps. Despite being classed as a documentary, it does have some semblance of a fictionalised storyline. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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