Gualtiero Jacopetti

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

Film credits

1960s · 4 titles

Behind the camera

Africa Blood and Guts poster
6.2

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.

Africa Blood and Guts

1966

Africa Blood and Guts poster
6.2

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.

Africa Blood and Guts

1966

Goodbye Uncle Tom poster
6.6

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

Goodbye Uncle Tom

1971

Goodbye Uncle Tom poster
6.6

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

Goodbye Uncle Tom

1971

Goodbye Uncle Tom poster
6.6

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

Goodbye Uncle Tom

1971

Mondo Cane poster
6.2

A 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

Mondo Cane poster
6.2

A 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

Mondo Cane poster
6.2

A 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

Mondo Cane 2 poster
5.6

The 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

Mondo Cane 2 poster
5.6

The 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

Women of the World poster
5.3

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

Women of the World

1963

Women of the World poster
5.3

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

Women of the World

1963

Mondo candido poster
5.5

Voltaire, 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

Mondo candido poster
5.5

Voltaire, 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

Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fangio: Una vita a 300 all'ora

1980

World by Night poster
7.0

A tour in colour and 'scope of cabarets and night-spots around the world.

World by Night

1960

European Nights poster
6.0

A tour of the nightlife in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Brussels and more. Episodes presenting famous artists and people performing.

European Nights

1959

No artwork available
NR

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

No artwork available
NR

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