Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)

Original title

Addio zio Tom

Directed by

Franco E. Prosperi, Franco Prosperi, Gualtiero Jacopetti

Genre

documentary film

Country

Italy

Runtime

2h 03m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 72 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A docudrama from 1971 uses reenactments to depict the brutal realities of slavery in antebellum America. It draws on historical documents to show the degrading treatment and racist ideology of the era.

disturbinggraphicbrutalunflinchingconfrontationalexploitativeprovocativemelancholic

What happens

Goodbye Uncle Tom (Italian: Addio Zio Tom) is a 1971 Italian mondo docudrama co-directed and co-written by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi with music by Riz Ortolani. Based on true events, the filmmakers explore antebellum America, using period documents to examine in graphic detail the racist ideology and degrading conditions faced by Africans under slavery. Due to the use of published documents and materials from the public record, it is labeled a documentary, though nearly all footage is restaged using actors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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