Gualtiero Jacopetti
1919 - 2011Gualtiero 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.
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The Godfathers of Mondo
David Gregory
David Flint, Benito Frattari
A look at the careers of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi who invented the mondo genre with MONDO CANE in 1962. It follows their career until their split in following the making of GOODBYE UNCLE TOM in 1971.
The Godfathers of Mondo
Mondo Candido
Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
Christopher Brown, Michele Miller
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
Mondo Cane
Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara
Rossano Brazzi, Stefano Sibaldi
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
Operazione Ricchezza
Gualtiero Jacopetti
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