Luonto ja väkivalta

Original title: Ultime grida dalla savana

19751975
(Banned)(Banned)
1h 34m

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

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Documentary Adventure Drama

A notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either animals or humans against each other or themse... Read allA notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either animals or humans against each other or themselves.A notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either animals or humans against each other or themselves.

IMDb RATING

5.4/10

372

YOUR RATING

Directors
- Antonio Climati
- Mario Morra
Writers
- Antonio Climati(story and screenplay)
- Mario Morra(story and screenplay)
- Alberto Moravia(commentary)
Stars
- Giuseppe Rinaldi(voice)
- Pit Dernitz(archive footage)
- Ilona Staller(uncredited)

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Giuseppe Rinaldi

Narrator
(voice)

Pit Dernitz

Self
(archive footage)
(uncredited)

Ilona Staller

Girl in Isle of Wight
(uncredited)

Michele Starck

Girl in Isle of Wight
(uncredited)

Directors
- Antonio Climati
- Mario Morra
Writers
- Antonio Climati(story and screenplay)
- Mario Morra(story and screenplay)
- Alberto Moravia(commentary)
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Trivia
The scene involving the hired guns torturing and killing indigenous South American tribes is staged. The lion attack sequence is also under suspicion as to being staged, but it has not been proven.

Goofs
When the native man is shot by the mercenaries, he is shot in the back but falls backwards, moving against the laws of physics. This is one aspect that proves the scene is a phony.

Quotes
Narrator: [directly before lions attack a tourist] This sequence is part of the evidence examined by the court in a lawsuit brought by the heirs of the victim against an insurance company.

Alternate versions
The UK cinema version was cut by around 10 minutes by the BBFC to heavily edit scenes of animal violence including a race between cheetahs and ostriches, and to remove a castration, a scalping, and a man being eaten by a lion in front of his family. UK censor James Ferman later described it as 'one of the most vile and objectionable films ever submitted to the BBFC'.

Connections
Edited from Hyvästi, Afrikka! (1966)

Soundtracks
My Love
Music by Carlo Savina
Lyrics by Gilbert Kaplan
Sung by Ann Collin

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Featured review

10/10

Best Documentary Ever Made

This is the stuff Dave Attenborough doesn't show on a Sunday night and dreams are made of. This Film has it all, from an elephant speared multiple times,the only footage i've ever seen of a man being mauled by a lion (one of many highlights),a tribe that have intercourse with the ground (its not virgin soil anymore). The narration is funny as well. Seriously you need this in your life so many animal deaths an under appreciated classic.You can get this and 19 other Grind-house films for £13 this film alone is worth that. Animals were harmed in the making of this film and it is all the better for it 10/10. Oh and a member of a fox hunt takes a Pooh

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