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Gualtiero Jacopetti (Italian: [ɡwalˈtjɛːro jakoˈpetti]; 4 September 1919 – 17 August 2011) was an Italian documentary film director. With Paolo Cavara and Franco Prosperi, he is considered the originator of mondo films, also called "shockumentaries".
Gualtiero Jacopetti è stato un giornalista, regista e documentarista italiano. Ideatore, insieme a Paolo Cavara e Franco Prosperi, del genere cinematografico dei Mondo movie, il cui capostipite fu Mondo cane; il suo film Africa addio vinse il David di Donatello.
Aug 19, 2011 · Gualtiero Jacopetti, a filmmaker who titillated and disgusted moviegoers by roaming the globe to document bizarre, not to say creepy, phenomena — a chicken that smokes cigarettes, for instance —...
Gualtiero Jacopetti was an Italian journalist, writer, director and editor, known for his controversial documentaries such as Mondo candido and Goodbye Uncle Tom. He was born in 1919, married and divorced, and died in 2011.
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Aug 21, 2011 · So it’s worth recognizing the film’s writer and supervising director, Gualtiero Jacopetti, who died Aug. 17 at 91. Born in Barga, Tuscany, in 1919, Jacopetti served in the Italian...
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Oct 7, 2011 · Young Italian men from the provinces longing for the ultimate American dream: to become a movie star. There is something deeply familiar in these intrusive zooms, these masks of life morbidly surrendering to the lure of the camera, to a few seconds of glory, to the primal screen.
Gualtiero Jacopetti was born on 4 September 1919 in Barga, Tuscany, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for A Dog's Life (1962), Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971) and Mondo candido (1975). He was married to Jolanda Kaldaras.
