Mondo Cane

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

Content

Shown are disjointed scenes from around the world that shock the audience, but to also entertain. In many scenes it comes to the brutal treatment of animals, slaughter and rituals. But there are also pictures with strange human customs shown, for example, heavily intoxicated visitors to the Reeperbahn.

Background

  • Literally translated, the Italian title " dog world " ( Mondo for "world" and Cane for " dog " ), mutatis mutandis, it has the meaning " cursed world."
  • To underscore the film music guarderò nel cuore Ti is used, which was composed by Nino Oliviero and Riz Ortalani. The composition was dyed in collaborative work between government and music for the scene in which young chicks for Easter, created. In April 1963, the British music producer Norman Newell wrote an English text under the title More, who has appeared in at least 55 versions. Best known are the Steve Lawrence, Vic Dana and Frank Sinatra (recorded on June 12, 1964). More ranks 12 of the BMI Top 100 Songs of the Century.

Reviews

" The first " Mondo "movie: A stark contrast Assembly - with shots of jungles and gourmet restaurants from Hawaii and St. Pauli, etc. - is next to trivial curiosities a collection of human error and destructive civilization phenomena exhibited: Women pigs suckle, religious fanatics who beat up the body bloody, half- wild native women that are fattened indoors, and the like. Between the fragments of customs and rituals that are taken out of context and commented rather cynically as critical, there are also some deeply harrowing passages about on the radioactivity destroys the sense of the animals in the Bikini Atoll. "

"With" Mondo Cane " Italian director and producer Gualtieri Jacopetti created then a new lurid type of pseudo- documentary, various other Italian directors continued the Mondo series whose attitude somewhere between " coupe ", early splatter and the popular RTL2 series" the dumbest criminals (women, motorists, etc.) in the world " was. "

Awards

  • International Film Festival of Cannes 1962: Golden Palm ( nomination )
  • David di Donatello Awards 1962: Best Production (winner )
  • Academy Awards 1964: Oscar for Best Music and Best Song (nominated )
  • Grammy Awards 1964: Best Original Score (nominated )
  • Laurel Awards 1964: Best Song ( 4th place)

Continuations

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

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