Gualtiero Jacopetti
Director · 1919 – 2011 · Barga, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gualtiero Jacopetti (born 4 September 1919) is 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gualtiero Jacopetti, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie6.2DocumentaryHistoryA chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from colonial rule to other forms of government, violent political upheavals were frequent. Revolutions in Zanzibar and Kenya in which thousands were killed are shown, the violence not only political; there is also extensive footage of hunters and poachers slaughtering different types of wild animals.
Movie6.6DramaCrimeTwo documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Movie6.3ComedyDramaA day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
Movie5.3DocumentaryA mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world.
Movie5.6DocumentaryHorrorThe official sequel to the original shockumentary presents a series of bizarre, shocking and grotesque cultural rituals, practices and events from around the world. Featured segments include the burning monks of Saigon in Vietnam, slave markets in Sudan, religious hysteria, mortician schools, and unusual global subcultures.
MovieDocumentaryThe documentary's main focus is on the works and some controversial episodes from personal life of Gualtiero Jacopetti, one of the originators of mondo films, also called "shockumentaries".
L'importanza di essere scomodo: Gualtiero Jacopetti
The Importance of Being Uncomfortable: Gualtiero Jacopetti
2012
Movie7.0DocumentaryA tour in colour and 'scope of cabarets and night-spots around the world.
Movie6.9DocumentaryA look at the careers of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi who invented the mondo genre with MONDO CANE in 1962. It follows their career until their split in following the making of GOODBYE UNCLE TOM in 1971.
The Godfathers of Mondo
2003 · 14 votes