Sergio Rossi

Jomo Kenyatta

Gualtiero Jacopetti

Julius Nyerere

Moïse Kapenda Tshombe

Richard Gordon Turnbull

Ian Yule

Franco Prosperi

Clara Mattei

Oria Santi

Romano Federici

Anna Gentile

Carolina Ponsomby

Stanis Nievo

Angelo Rizzoli

Antonio Climati

Ugo Valenti

Fausto Ancillai

Federico Abussi

Maria Gianandrea

Riz Ortolani

Frederick Ridgard

Consuelo Nievo

Maurizio Graziosi

Tonino Cacciottolo

Paolo Ketoff

Documentary

Horror

Africa Addio

Cineriz

Italy

Italiano

AFRICA ADDIO (1966) is a difficult work to evaluate. Released at a time when most major media resources were focused on the Vietnam War, co-directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi were among a very, very small group of people documenting the unrest which accompanied the decolonization of Africa. More than 50 years after its release, this is still a brutally graphic film: human death is captured on camera, up-close and unsimulated; hippopotami and elephants are attacked with spears until they resemble living pin-cushions, only expiring after suffering prolonged and agonizing brutality; human remains litter rural fields and city streets like so much discarded waste. There are several scenes where the audio appears to be altered to present the on-screen activity in a manipulated context, which was a technique employed in both MONDO CANE (1962) and MONDO CANE 2 (1963). Charges that the filmmakers were actually complicit in staging some of the death scenes led to a court case in Italy, where they were eventually acquitted. But being critical of a mondo movie for employing deception is like being critical of a baker for employing yeast; it's one of the tools at the creators' disposal. Understanding that the mondo genre in general was more concerned with titilation and shock than in absolute narrative truth will go a long way in explaining why Jacopetti and Prosperi may have felt the need to alter already potent footage: they weren't aspiring documentarians, but rather talented grindhouse purveyors who found themselves in the right place at the right time.

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"Africa Addio" (1966 - Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi)

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