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Mondo film is a documentary film, sometimes resembling a pseudo-documentary, usually depicting sensational topics and scenes.
The fad started with Mondo cane (1962) by Gualtiero Jacopetti and proved quite popular. Mondo films are often easily recognized by name, as even English language mondo films included the term often "mondo" in their titles. Over the years the film makers wanted to top each other in shock value in order to draw in audiences. Cruelty to animals, accidents, tribal initiation rites and surgeries are a common feature of a typical mondo. Much of the action is also staged, even though the film makers may claim their goal to document only "the reality". Today, mondo films are generally considered to be camp.
The Russ Meyer film Mondo Topless was one of the few "documentaries" restricted to the old midnight movie circuit of the pre-VCR era, as it explored strip clubs in 1960s San Francisco, at a time when strip clubs were a novelty in the United States restricted to centers of port-city decadence such as San Francisco. Other examples of movies in this genre include Mondo di Notte by Gianni Proia, Mondo Balordo by Roberto Montero and Mondo Ford by Ricardo Fratelli.
The eighties saw a resurgence of Mondo movies, though now they focused almost solely on onscreen death, rather than cultures of the world. The Faces of Death series is probably the best known example of this type of mondo, or 'death' movie. The producers at this time still used faked footage, passed off as real.
The mondo film in the 21st century has transformed into a very 'in your face', gory spectacle, as seen in the Faces Of Gore and Traces of Death series. There is considerably less fake footage and many of these use news footage of accidents from the far east.
Mondo movies
- Mondo cane, Italian, 1960, director: Gualtiero Jacopetti, screenplay: Franco E. Prosperi, music: Riz Ortolani.
- LA DONNA NEL MONDO, Italian, 1961. director und screenplay: Franco E. Prosperi, Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti. music: Riz Ortolani, Nino Oliviero
- IL MONDO DI NOTTE N.2, Italian,1961. director: Gianni Proia, music: Piero Piccioni.
- MONDO CALDO DI NOTTE, Italian, 1961. director: Renzo Russo, music: Armando Sciascia
- LE CITTA PROIBITE , Italian, 1962. director und screenplay: Giuseppe Maria Scotese, music: Marcello Giombini.
- I PIACERI NEL MONDO, Italian, 1963. director und screenplay: Vinicio Marinucci, music: Marcello Giombini
- MONDO CANE II'' Italian, 1963, director und screenplay: Franco E. Prosperi, Gualtiero Jacopetti, music: Nino Oliviero
- IL PELO NEL MONDO, Italian, 1963. director: Antonio Margheriti, music: Nino Oliviero
- MONDO NUDO, Italian, 1963. director: Giuseppe Marotta
- Mondo di notte , Italian, 1963. director: Gianni Proia, music: Riz Ortolani
- TENTAZIONI PROIBITE , Italian, 1963. director: Osvaldo Civirani , music: Coriolano Gori.
- Mondo infame, Italian, 1963. director und screenplay: Roberto Bianchi Montero, music: Francesco De Masi
- NOVANTO NOTTI IN GIRO PER IL MONDO, Italian, 1963. director: Mino Loy, music: Franco Tamponi
- CANZONI NEL MONDO, Italian, 1965. director: Vittorio Sala, screenplay: Franco E. Prosperi, music: Roberto Ni. Mit Auftritten von Gilbert Bécaud, Peppino di Capri, Dean Martin, Juliette Gréco und Melina Mercouri.
- MONDO TOPLESS, USA, 1966/87. director und screenplay: Russ Meyer, starring: Sinee Lenee, Diane Young, Eva Horvath, Darlene Grey, Babette Bardot.
- QUESTO SPORCO MONDO MERAVIGLIOSO, Italian, 1971. director und screenplay: Mino Loy, music: Piero Umiliani
- MONDO FREUDO , USA, 1974. director: Robert Lee Frost, screenplay: D. Schier, music: The Duvals.
- Mondo candido, Italian, 1974. director und screenplay: Franco E. Prosperi, Gualtiero Jacopetti, music: Riz Ortolani, starring: Christopher Brown, Michelle Miller, Richard Domphe, José Quaglio, Jacques Herlin, Gianfranco D'Angelo.
- FOLLIE DI NOTTE, Italian, 1978. director , screenplay und cinematography: Aristide Massaccesi aka Joe D'Amato, music: Rainer Pietsch, starring: Amon Düül II, Claudia Barry, Ronnie Jones, Amanda Lear.
- NOTTI PORNO NEL MONDO , Italian, 1977/78. director und screenplay: Bruno Mattei, music: Joe Dynamo, starring: Laura Gemser u.a.
- IL PAESE DEL SESSO SELVAGGIO, Italian, 1972. director: Umberto Lenzi, music: Daniele Patucchi, starring: Sulallewan Suxantat, Ong Ards, Ivan Rassimov, Me-Me Lay, Prasitsak Singhara,
- ULTIMO MONDO CANNIBALE, Italian, 1976. director: Ruggero Deodato, music: Ubaldo Continiello, starring: Ivan Rassimov, Me-Me Lay, Massimo Foschi
- Mondo diavolo Italian, 1976, director und screenplay: Mario Morra, music: Maurizio de Angelis, Guido de Angelis
- Mondo Infernale'', CATASTROPHE, USA, 1976. director und screenplay: Larry Savadove, music: Ray Ellis
- CANNIBALS , Italian, 1980. director: Sam Gardner, starring: Michael Kelly, Gordon Maragan
- Mondo cane III Italian, 1988, director und cinematography: Stelvio Massi
- MONDO NEW YORK, USA, 1988. director: Harvey Keith, starring: Rick Aviles, Joey Arias, Charlie Barnett
Bibliography
- RE/Search No. 10: Incredibly Strange Films: A Guide to Deviant Films. RE/Search Publications 1986, ISBN 0940642093
- Killing for Culture: An Illustrated History of Death Film from Mondo to Snuff, by David Kerekes and David Slater, ISBN 1871592208, paperback, 1996
- Sweet and Savage, by Mark Goodall, Headpress, published March 2006
External links
"Mondo film"