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Africa Blood and Guts

Every Scene Looks You Straight in the Eye... and Spits!

6.2(55)19662h 18m3

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
Part of Mondo Cane Collection · 8 films
  • africa
  • congo
  • mercenary
  • cane
  • colonisation
  • colonialism
  • mondo
  • shockumentary

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  • 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

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Africa Blood and Guts was released on 11 February 1966.

Audience reviews

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  • A

    adorablepanic

    4/2/2020

    6/10

    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…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    8/16/2025

    7/10

    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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