Gualtiero Jacopetti

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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.

04-09-1919

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Virgo

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Total Films

Also known as (male)

Barga, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

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04-09-1919

Birthday

Virgo

Zodiac Sign

Genres

Total Films

Also Known As (male)

Barga, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

Place of Birth

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6 Works

producer

2 Works

director

20 Works

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7 Works

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The Importance of Being Uncomfortable: Gualtiero Jacopetti

The 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".

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2012

The Godfathers of Mondo

A 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.

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2003

Goodbye Uncle Tom

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

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1971

Africa Addio

A documentary about the end of the colonial era in Africa, portraying acts of animal poaching, violence, executions, and tribal slaughter.

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1966

Women of the World

A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world.

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1963

A Day in Court

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.

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1954