Gualtiero Jacopetti
Birthday: 1919-09-04
Place of Birth: Barga, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Biography: 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.
Movies
The Godfathers of Mondo
A look at the careers of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi who invented the mondo genre with M...
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A Day in Court
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and...
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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 G...
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Women of the World
A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world....
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Africa Blood and Guts
A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As ...
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Goodbye Uncle Tom
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave tr...
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Mondo Cane 2
The official sequel to the original shockumentary, presenting new and bizarre behavior from around t...
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World by Night
A tour in colour and 'scope of cabarets and night-spots around the world....
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