Mondo Cane

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Movie
German title Mondo Cane
Original title Mondo Cane
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1962
length 108 minutes
Rod
Director Gualtiero Jacopetti ,
Franco Prosperi ,
Paolo Cavara
script Gualtiero Jacopetti,
Paolo Cavara
production Gualtiero Jacopetti
music Riz Ortolani
camera Antonio Climati
Benito Frattari
cut Gualtiero Jacopetti
occupation

Mondo Cane is a documentary from 1962 by Gualtiero Jacopetti , Franco Prosperi and Paolo Cavara and is considered to be the cornerstone of the Mondo genre . The film premiere in Italy took place on March 30, 1962.

content

Various scenes from all over the world are shown, which are intended to shock the viewer, but also to entertain. Many scenes are about the brutal handling of animals, slaughter and rituals. But there are also pictures with strange human customs, for example heavily drunk visitors to Hamburg's Reeperbahn .

background

  • Literally translated, the Italian title means "world of dogs" (Mondo for "world" and Cane for "dog"), correspondingly it means "cursed world".
  • The film music Ti guarderò nel cuore , composed by Nino Oliviero and Riz Ortolani, is used as background music . The composition was created in collaboration between direction and music for the scene in which young chicks are colored for Easter. In April 1963, the British music producer Norman Newell wrote an English text under the title 'More', which has appeared in at least 55 versions. Most famous are those of Steve Lawrence , Vic Dana and Frank Sinatra (recorded June 12, 1964). More ranks 12th in the BMI Top 100 Songs of the Century.

Reviews

“The first 'Mondo' film: a stark contrast montage - with shots from primeval forests and gourmet restaurants, from Hawaii and St. Pauli, etc. - shows, alongside trivial curiosities, a collection of human misconduct and destructive phenomena of civilization: women suckling pigs, religious Fanatics who bloody their bodies, women of half-wild natives who are fattened in stables, and the like. Between the fragments of customs and rites that have been taken out of context and are commented more cynically than critically, there are also some deeply shocking passages, for example about the radioactivity that destroys the animals' sense of direction in Bikini Atoll . "

- Lexicon of international film

"With 'Mondo Cane' the Italian director and producer Gualtieri Jacopetti created a new lurid type of pseudo-documentary film, various other Italian directors continued the Mondo series, whose attitude is somewhere between ' Coupé ', early splatter and the popular RTL2 series, the stupidest criminals (women, drivers, etc.) in the world. "

- The daily newspaper

Awards

Sequels

In addition to Mondo Cane 2 , in which Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi were also involved, there are other films with this name; however, these have nothing to do with the film duo Jacopetti and Prosperi.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Shocking documentaries: In stark pictures around the world on one day from July 20, 2012
  2. ↑ on July 26, 1963, the New Musical Express reported that there were already 20 US versions of More
  3. ↑ BMI Top 100 Songs of the Century ( Memento from February 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Entry in the Lexicon of International Films
  5. ↑ Sex and Kaffir Beer in Die Tageszeitung from June 18, 2001