Touching the Void (film)

Touching the Void
Region 2 DVD cover
Directed byKevin Macdonald
Produced byJohn Smithson
StarringBrendan Mackey
Nicholas Aaron
Ollie Ryall
CinematographyMike Eley
Keith Partridge
Edited byJustine Wright
Music byAlex Heffes
Production
companies
FilmFour
UK Film Council
Channel 4
PBS
Darlow Smithson Productions
Distributed byPathé Distribution
Release dates
  • 5 September 2003 (2003-09-05) (TIFF)
  • 12 December 2003 (2003-12-12)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£2 million
Box office$13,885,802

Touching the Void is a 2003 survival documentary film directed by Kevin Macdonald and starring Brendan Mackey, Nicholas Aaron, and Ollie Ryall. The plot concerns Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' near-fatal descent after making the first successful ascent of the West Face of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes, in 1985. It is based on Simpson's 1988 book of the same name.

Critically acclaimed, Touching the Void was listed in PBS's "100 Greatest Documentaries of All Time".[1] The Guardian described it as "the most successful documentary in British cinema history".[2]

  1. ^ Inc, POV | American Documentary. "The 25 Greatest Documentaries of All Time". POV's Documentary Blog. Retrieved 11 May 2023. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  2. ^ "Touching the Void | Film". The Guardian. 30 August 2009.