Africa Addio

Italy

1966

140 Min

Color

Italian

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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DIR Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi

SCR Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi

ED Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi

From the producers of the Mondo Canes comes this violent document of a continent in transition; the change from white colonialism to independent black statehood. Often times, this resulted in the wholesale massacre of thousands of people and the indiscriminate extermination of wild life. Captured on film are mercenary killer squads wiping out entire villages, executions, Mau-Mau massacres and more.

Director

Gualtiero Jacopetti

Gualtiero Jacopetti (4 September 1919 – 17 August 2011) was an Italian director of documentary films. He was born in Barga, in northern Tuscany. With Paolo Cavara and Franco Prosperi is the originator of Mondo films, also called shockumentaries. —Wikipedia

Franco Prosperi

Franco Prosperi was born in 1926 in Rome, Italy. He is a film director and screenwriter. With Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti is the originator of Mondo films, also called shockumentaries.

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Christopher Smith

14Jan10

The mother of all Mondo movies is an amazing pseudo-documentary of incredibly artful exploitation, featuring some of the most audacious images ever put on film. Unquestionably ethnocentric bordering on racist - despite its good intentions; the film decries the "cruelty of man" while reveling in horrific images of bloodshed. Questioning how much of it is actually real just adds to the film's epic mystique, continually