Mondo Cannibale

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Movie
German title Mondo Cannibale
Original title Il paese del sesso selvaggio
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1972
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
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Director Umberto Lenzi
script Francesco Barilli
Massimo D'Avak
production Ovidio G. Assonitis
Giorgio Carlo Rossi
music Daniele Patucchi
camera Riccardo Pallottini
cut Eugenio Alabiso
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Successor  →
Mondo Cannibale, Part 2 - The Bird Man

Mondo Cannibale (original title: Il paese del sesso selvaggio ) is a cannibal film by Umberto Lenzi from 1972 that is close to the exploitation genre . As usual with later Italian representatives of the genre, the film contains numerous killing scenes of animals, some of which were staged in close-ups . These scenes were received by the audience in a very controversial and sometimes negative way. Mondo Cannibale was the first cannibal film to show such animal killings not in the context of the documentary, but in the context of entertainment.

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The film tells the pseudo-real folklore story of the English photojournalist Duane John Bradley, who was once touring the as yet unexplored Burmese / Thai border area when he disappeared without a trace. Years later, a scientific expedition in a remote village discovered him as the integrated head of a strange native tribe .

After a tussle, for which he was not responsible, in which a Thai drunkard was fatally injured in a bar, the well-drinking English photojournalist Bradley fled to the northern Thai jungle , his actual destination. Together with Chuan, his local travel companion, the adventurer rents a boat and travels upstream to a region that has hardly been explored and which also offers him refuge. In the seclusion, the nature filmmaker succeeded in taking pictures of an intact flora and fauna over the next few days when suddenly the idyll is disturbed by a primitive, hostile tribe of natives. The two men are attacked.

Chuan is killed in this attack, while Bradley is captured and initially spared because of the blond hair unknown to the savages and his diving suit , as he is mistakenly mistaken for a "fish man". He is used for week-long slave labor . With his arrival in the village community, the eccentric attracts the attention of Marayås, the daughter of the tribal chief Lahuna, who has been promised to a brave fighter, initially unnoticed by him. When her budding native husband Karen Bradley tries to escape, but is fatally defeated in a subsequent duel, the blonde adventurer takes his position after a painful admission ritual.

As a respected member of the tribe, he adapts to village life, learns the language with great difficulty and falls in love with Marayå, who in turn chooses him to be her husband. Bradley refuses to return to civilization. A brief period of happiness follows for the couple and Marayå becomes pregnant after weeks of bliss.

Suddenly at that moment, two villagers are attacked and killed by a vanguard of a warlike cannibal tribe . A group of fighters around Bradley manage to fend off the attack extremely brutally and to kill or push back the intruders. After another large-scale attack by the cannibals, countless villagers fell victim to the greedy mob. The village is almost completely burned down. One day later, Marayå, who became blind as a result of a mysterious eye disease, gave birth to a baby, but died a little later, completely exhausted.

After a short period of mourning Bradley takes over the leadership of the village at the end of the film. He decides to rebuild it with his people when he is spotted from a helicopter .

Reviews

"Adventure film interspersed with alleged folkloric reconstructions, which combines cinema elements and speculation with shocks, which it draws particularly from the depiction of cannibalism."

- Lexicon of international film

literature

  • –MAERZ– (Axel Estein): cannibals - meat is meat . In: S platting Image , No. 8, Berlin 1991, pages 5-14.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mondo Cannibale. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used