Director

PAVOL BARABAS was born in 1959. He has worked as a camera operator and director for Sportfilm, ERPO Advertising Agency and K2 STUDIO. In addition to TV advertising and promotional films, he is the author of a broad range of mountain films with the topic of the lives of people in extreme conditions. Amongst his award-winning works, we remember Karakoram Highway (1995), a 3 part serial on a trip to the 4th. highest mountain in the world; Across The Wild Baltistan, a document about the Karakoram country settled by the Baltistantians and Buddhist Ladakh (1996); When Life Turns Its Back On You, describing the unbelievable fight of physically handicapped skiers, and 80 Meters Below The Summit (1997), an impressive documentary on the performance of Slovak climbers. His very fertile production follows with 118 Days In Captivity Of Ice, Grand Prix winner at Poprad, Trento, Vancouver and Teplice Festivals, Their Home Is Below Kanchenjunga and Buddhism On The Roof Of The World (1988) and, in 1999, Beyond The Frontiers Of Darkness, Grand Prix at the Trojan Festival, Bulgaria. Barab·s' most recent work, Mysterious Mamberamo, won the Grand Prix at the Banff, Bratislava and Moscow Festivals, as well as many other awards.

Thanks to its inaccessibility, both natural and political, Irian Jaya is one of the few places on earth where civilized man can come in contact with the primitive world. Until now no expedition had managed the march from the centre of the country to the River Mamberamo, which has hidden its secrets from the white world.

But the dream of all explorers and adventure-seekers became true when two friends managed to reach the forbidden inland territory of New Guinea.

They struggled with the snares of the jungle, overcoming many personal difficulties, but in the end they succeeded in finding the real treasures in life…

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