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
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
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 It draws on historical documents to show the degrading treatment and racist ideology of the era.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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Mal d'Africa (1967)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.