Ah...old "classic" from the 80s or so...that movie was going around among vhs traders and very "popular".
Not as in "oh i love watching these people get killed" but cos of its gore.
I threw my copy away 20-30 years ago or so.
shitloads of new stuff in my pc. Cant keep track of it all.
Well we talk about this every now and then but yeah I do think the world is a bit too sterile these days when it comes to reporting on wars or conflicts. Even the more modern documentaries of past conflict make sure you don't feel too uneasy.
I think it portrays decolonization pretty fairly and well, and not the "gore" bits are not legion.
But yeah, while it's tough to watch at times, it's how it went down.
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~Berthold Auerbach
Well we talk about this every now and then but yeah I do think the world is a bit too sterile these days when it comes to reporting on wars or conflicts. Even the more modern documentaries of past conflict make sure you don't feel too uneasy.
Vice done some reporting on the Ukraine vs Russia/prorussian separatitsts conflict in Donetsk and it had some graphic shit. I won't probably ever forget the swollen cooked soldier's body hanging on high voltage line.
This was actually a pretty damn interesting documentary. Had to skip all the animal poaching though. It's definitely not all black & white (pun intended), back then and even now.
But how the rest of the world fucked up that entire contintent is obvious. Europe did the worst, clearly, but there's clearly no love lost between Africans and arabs, even in the 1960s. And China is even worse.
Yup, Africa Addio is a very heavy, but necessary watch. The "mondo" film type of documentaries went through a ton of criticism here back in the day and the director even risked jail time for this one since people thought some of the killings were staged (they weren't, of course).
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A scene depicting the execution of a Simba rebel during the Simba rebellion in the Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville) resulted in Jacopetti being charged with murder in Italy; he was acquitted after producing documents demonstrating the footage had not been staged for the cameras.
During the filming of Africa Addio—which includes footage of intense fighting and mass death in the Mau Mau Uprising, the Zanzibar Revolution, the Simba rebellion, and other post-colonial African conflicts—the crew was interrogated in Zaire, and arrested and nearly executed in Tanzania, before an army official intervened on their behalf, shouting "Stop — they're not whites, they're Italians."
Yeah, it occurs at the 1h37 mark in the movie. There was a genocide against arabs going on, of which they were trying to get footage from.
They were pretty crazy driving around that area.
Like the other part when they land their plane, get attacked/shot at, and immediately have to take off again.
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(they weren't, of course).
