Africa Addio

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Movie
German title Africa Addio
Original title Africa addio
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1966
length 132 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Gualtiero Jacopetti
Franco Prosperi
script Gualtiero Jacopetti
Franco Prosperi
production Angelo Rizzoli
music Riz Ortolani
camera Antonio Climati
cut Gualtiero Jacopetti
Franco Prosperi
occupation

Africa Addio is an Italian pseudo documentary film ( Mondo ), which was directed in 1966 by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi . It is one of the most controversial and shocking films of the 1960s . The music in the film is by Riz Ortolani and has also been released as a soundtrack.

Information about the film

The film shows the phase of decolonization in East Africa . Essentially, the focus is on two events: the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya and the mass murder of Zanzibaris of Arab origin during the Zanzibar revolution - the latter between 5,000 and 20,000 people were murdered. The film also shows looting and executions during the suppression of the Simba rebellion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The authors often had to put up with the accusation of racism . The reason for this was that the film showed, among other things, massacres committed by African nationalists and their victims, thus placing Africans in the image of the “savage” who could not do without colonial power . The film also contradicted the trend of the 1960s in Europe's left-wing milieu towards the romanticization of nationalist movements in the Third World.

Director Gualtiero Jacopetti has been on trial in Italy for aiding and abetting triple intentional killings in a scene that includes the shooting of a black boy , but was acquitted. The showing of the film also led to protests in Italian and German cinemas in 1966/1967, in which the film was accused of racism.

Awards

In 1966, the film has the David di Donatello Award won for best production, he deals with the Bible and Now, now, gentlemen ... had to share.

In 1966, the film received the rating of valuable from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden .

criticism

The film critic Roger Ebert wrote about the film: “'Africa Addio' is a brutal, dishonest, racist film. He slanders a continent and at the same time diminishes the human spirit. And he does this to entertain us. ”The Evangelical Film Watcher was also critical of the film:“ The pure intention of the often refined aesthetic abundance of atrocities against humans and animals remains as dubious as the documentary value of those selected rather one-sidedly Recordings. The correct handling of this journalistic report requires not only a sure eye for real and fake, but also knowledge of the upheaval of the continent from other sources. "

literature

  • Seibert, Niels Protests against the film Africa Addio . In: interface (ed.) Resistance Movements Association A, Berlin / Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3935936346
  • Seibert, Niels Forgotten Protests . Unrast, Münster 2008, ISBN 9783897710320

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑. Sergeĭ Plekhanov: A Reformer on the Throne: Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al Said . Trident Press Ltd ,, ISBN 1-900724-70-7 , p. 91.
  2. ^ Review by Roger Ebert, April 25, 1967
  3. ↑ Evangelical Press Association Munich, Review No. 230/1966