
Directing
Gualtiero Jacopetti
Born — Died
1919-09-04 — 2011-08-17
Place of birth
Barga, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Known for
Directing
Credits
27 titles
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.
Known for
6.2A 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.
Africa Blood and Guts
1966
6.6Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Goodbye Uncle Tom
1971
6.2A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.
Mondo Cane
1962
5.6The official sequel to the original shockumentary presents a series of bizarre, shocking and grotesque cultural rituals, practices and events from around the world. Featured segments include the burning monks of Saigon in Vietnam, slave markets in Sudan, religious hysteria, mortician schools, and unusual global subcultures.
Mondo Cane 2
1963
6.3A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
A Day in Court
1954
5.3A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world.
Women of the World
1963
Film credits
1970s · 1 titles
1960s · 4 titles
6.2A 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.
Africa Blood and Guts
1966
5.6The official sequel to the original shockumentary presents a series of bizarre, shocking and grotesque cultural rituals, practices and events from around the world. Featured segments include the burning monks of Saigon in Vietnam, slave markets in Sudan, religious hysteria, mortician schools, and unusual global subcultures.
Mondo Cane 2
1963
5.3A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world.
Women of the World
1963
7.0A tour in colour and 'scope of cabarets and night-spots around the world.
World by Night
1960
Behind the camera
6.2A 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.
Africa Blood and Guts
1966
6.2A 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.
Africa Blood and Guts
1966
6.6Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Goodbye Uncle Tom
1971
6.6Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Goodbye Uncle Tom
1971
6.6Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Goodbye Uncle Tom
1971
6.2A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.
Mondo Cane
1962
6.2A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.
Mondo Cane
1962
6.2A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.
Mondo Cane
1962
5.6The official sequel to the original shockumentary presents a series of bizarre, shocking and grotesque cultural rituals, practices and events from around the world. Featured segments include the burning monks of Saigon in Vietnam, slave markets in Sudan, religious hysteria, mortician schools, and unusual global subcultures.
Mondo Cane 2
1963
5.6The official sequel to the original shockumentary presents a series of bizarre, shocking and grotesque cultural rituals, practices and events from around the world. Featured segments include the burning monks of Saigon in Vietnam, slave markets in Sudan, religious hysteria, mortician schools, and unusual global subcultures.
Mondo Cane 2
1963
5.3A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world.
Women of the World
1963
5.3A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world.
Women of the World
1963
5.5Voltaire, a 16th century author was furious that learned members of a "civilized" society could claim that the apparent senseless violence and mayhem wrought by disasters, war, disease, man's cruelty, etc. was actually only a part of some 'greater good'. After all, God (being perfect) could not 'logically' have created anything but the 'best of all possible' universes.
Mondo candido
1975
5.5Voltaire, a 16th century author was furious that learned members of a "civilized" society could claim that the apparent senseless violence and mayhem wrought by disasters, war, disease, man's cruelty, etc. was actually only a part of some 'greater good'. After all, God (being perfect) could not 'logically' have created anything but the 'best of all possible' universes.
Mondo candido
1975
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Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora
1980
7.0A tour in colour and 'scope of cabarets and night-spots around the world.
World by Night
1960
6.0A tour of the nightlife in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Brussels and more. Episodes presenting famous artists and people performing.
European Nights
1959
Gualtiero Jacopetti's last documentary. It tells the story of one of the largest dams in the world and the lives of men in search of gold and diamonds in the sands of the river that runs through the province of Caroní, in Venezuela.
Operazione Ricchezza
1983
Gualtiero Jacopetti's last documentary. It tells the story of one of the largest dams in the world and the lives of men in search of gold and diamonds in the sands of the river that runs through the province of Caroní, in Venezuela.
Operazione Ricchezza
1983


