Africa segreta (1969)
- Directed by
- Angelo Castiglioni, Alfredo Castiglioni, Guido Guerrasio
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Rating
- 10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This is an Italian mondo documentary from 1969. It shows shocking and taboo subjects from foreign cultures, including death and sex, with some scenes staged as real.
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What happens
Mondo film is a subgenre of exploitative documentary films. Many mondo films are pseudo-documentaries and usually depict sensational topics, scenes, or situations. Common traits of mondo films include portrayals of foreign cultures (which have drawn accusations of ethnocentrism or racism), an emphasis on taboo subjects such as death and sex, and staged sequences presented as genuine documentary footage. Over time, the films have placed increasing emphasis on footage of the dead and dying (both real and fake). The term mondo is Italian for 'world'. The term shockumentary is also used to describe the genre. Mondo films began to soar in popularity in the 1960s with the releases of Mondo Cane (1962), Women of the World (1963) and Africa Addio (1966). The genre arguably reached its peak with Faces of Death (1978), a film that inspired myriad imitators, such as Banned from Television, Death Scenes, and the Traces of Death and Faces of Gore series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Angeli bianchi...angeli neri (1970)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.