Mondo Cane director Gualtiero Jacopetti, RIP

Film director Gualtiero Jacopetti, director of the pioneering 1962 shockumentary Mondo Cane, has died. He was 91. The trailer above may be NSFW. From the film's opening:

All the scenes you will see in this film are true and are taken only from life. If often they are shocking, it is because there are many shocking things in this world. Besides, the duty of the chronicler is not to sweeten the truth but to report it objectively.

"Gualtiero Jacopetti, Maker of ‘Mondo Cane,’ Dies at 91" (New York Times)

"Provocateur Gualtiero Jacopetti Dead at 91: Honoring the Man Behind the Mondo Movies" (TIME)

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I don’t suppose anyone caught his death on film. That would be pretty fitting, I think…
anharmyenone

Netflix has his films. They’re great.
DouglasLucchetti

It’s remarkable how ‘un-shocking’ they are now, and how the theme song “More” became such a hit and eventually a standard of popular music.
gedsudski

Like an early “Faces of Death” type thing? THAT is a mistake I’m not apt to repeat.
wibbled_pig

Dog World.. I guess maybe dogs had it harder, way back when.
Kaleberg

There used to be a section at Kim’s Video in the village called Mondo which had Mondo Cane, its lame sequels and other “mondo” movies. Of course, this one was probably the best of its kind.