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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.
Total trailers found: 14
05 April 1960
A tour in colour and 'scope of cabarets and night-spots around the world.
11 February 1966
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.
21 February 1975
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.
30 January 1963
A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world.
30 March 1962
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.
26 February 1959
A tour of the nightlife in Rome, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Brussels and more. Episodes presenting famous artists and people performing.
23 September 1971
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
30 January 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.
28 January 1954
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
11 May 1961
1821 Rome: Ulysses enrolls in the Italian Fascist party because he cannot find any employment. The first task entrusted to him leads Ulysses to the printer Fossati, where he's hired as an apprentice.
30 November 1963
The official sequel to the original shockumentary, presenting new and bizarre behavior from around the world, including cruelty, graphic gore, and strange rituals.
01 October 2003
A look at the careers of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi who invented the mondo genre with MONDO CANE in 1962.
01 June 2012
The documentary's main focus is on the works and some controversial episodes from personal life of Gualtiero Jacopetti, one of the originators of mondo films, also called "shockumentaries".
