Gualtiero Jacopetti

Born: 1919-09-04

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Gualtiero Jacopetti (born 4 September 1919) is an Italian director of documentary films. He was born in Barga, in northern Tuscany. With Paolo Cavara and Franco Prosperi is the originator of Mondo films, also called shockumentaries. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gualtiero Jacopetti,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Africa Addio

as Himself (uncredited)
Released: 1966-02-11

A documentary about the end of the colonial era in Africa, portraying acts of animal poaching,...

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Goodbye Uncle Tom

as Self (uncredited)
Released: 1971-09-23

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the...

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A Day in Court

as Avv. Terenzio Anastasi
Released: 1954-01-28

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes...

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Women of the World

as Himself
Released: 1963-01-30

A mondo doc detailing the wild and weird world of women... around the world.

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The Godfathers of Mondo

as uncredited
Released: 2003-10-01

A look at the careers of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi who invented the mondo genre...

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The Importance of Being Uncomfortable: Gualtiero Jacopetti

as uncredited
Released: 2012-06-01

The documentary's main focus is on the works and some controversial episodes from personal life...

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