Mondo Cane

Mondo Cane (1962)

It enters a hundred incredible worlds where the camera has never gone before!

A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.

Date of release
1962-03-30
TMDB
6.2 / 10 (104)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
Collection
Mondo Cane Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Mondo Cane is a 1962 Italian mondo documentary film directed by the trio of Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, and Franco E. Prosperi, with narration by Stefano Sibaldi. The film consists of a series of travelogue scenes that provide glimpses into cultural practices around the world with the intention of shocking or surprising Western film audiences. These scenes are presented with little continuity, as they are intended as a kaleidoscopic display of shocking content rather than presenting a structured argument. Despite its claims of genuine documentation, certain scenes are either staged or creatively manipulated to enhance this effect.

Production

In the beginning, as Cavara (who took the helm for European and Euro-Asiatic zone) and his supervisor Stanis Nievo' interviews revealed, Mondo Cane was a unique project conceived with La donna nel Mondo, and worked on at the same time (1960–62).

In the United States, Jean Goldwurm's Times Film Corporation released Mondo Cane in 1963.

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