Africa: Blood and Guts (1966)

The cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent.

Directors:

Gualtiero Jacopetti (as Jacopetti), Francesco Prosperi

Writers:

Gualtiero Jacopetti (as Jacopetti), Francesco Prosperi

Stars:

Sergio Rossi, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Julius Nyerere

2 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview:
Sergio Rossi	...	Narrator (voice)

Storyline

From the producers of 'Mondo Cane' comes this violent document of a continent in transition; the change from white colonialism to independent black statehood. Often times, this resulted in the wholesale massacre of thousands of people and the indiscriminate extermination of wild life. Captured on film are mercenary killer squads wiping out entire villages, executions, Mau-Mau massacres and more!

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Plot Keywords:

re enactment | disturbing | controversial | execution | violence | 

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Taglines:

You May LOVE It! You May HATE It! But You'll Not FORGET It!

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Genres:

Documentary

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

11 February 1966 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Africa Blood and Guts

Filming Locations:

Angola

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cineriz

Technical Specs

Runtime:

140 min 83 min (1970 release)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Two new scenes were added in the English version of Africa Addio. One was the Africans' portrayal on the white people and another was the rich Africans with their white nurses. About 12 minutes of the original film was cut.

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Connections

Edited into Savage Man Savage Beast (1975)

User Reviews

Terrifying. And fascinating.

Both terrifying and fascinating are the words that sprang up in my mind as I was watching the movie.

It's fascinating that the record of atrocities made to humans and animals in Africa existed already in the sixties. Just as those atrocities were happening. Today, fifty years later, we are only made aware post festum that something like that was happening and happened, but it is like some distant point in the past. If you think Iraq war in the nineties was the first 'live' feed of (war) terror from the other side of the world, think again. And try to find this movie. The movie maybe is not 'live' feed in the most rigid sense of the word, but it is a contemporary document of something that shouldn't have happened. And, what is worse, is still happening today.

And terrifying? Well, you just have to see the movie.