

Africa Blood and Guts
Every Scene Looks You Straight in the Eye... and Spits!
A 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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $2M
- Language
- Italian
- africa
- congo
- mercenary
- cane
- colonisation
- colonialism
- mondo
- shockumentary
Top billed cast
Behind the camera
Music
Produced in
Italy
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR11 Feb 1966
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical11 Aug 1967
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical20 Jan 1969
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-18(Banned) (1967)4 Oct 1968
FranceFR
- Theatrical121 Dec 1976
- Physical12Blu-Ray4 Mar 2025
GermanyDE
- Theatrical183 Jun 1966
ItalyIT
- TheatricalVM1811 Feb 1966
JapanJP
- Theatrical23 Apr 1966
NorwayNO
- Theatrical12 Jun 1967
SpainES
- Theatrical184 Nov 1981
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1520 May 1968
Frequently asked questions
Africa Blood and Guts was released on 11 February 1966.
Audience reviews
2- A6/10
adorablepanic
4/2/2020
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, u…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
8/16/2025
Although it’s tongue is in it’s cheek for too much of this and the narrative can be all over the place at times, this is still quite an harrowing chronology of post-colonial Africa that’s occasionally quite a difficult film to watch. We start off with the departure of the British from Tanganyika and then follow just how the indigenous population attempted to build on the promise of “uhuru”. This is no easy task, as p…
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