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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 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. He died on 17 August 2011 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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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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Aug 18, 2011 · Gualtiero Jacopetti, the Italian director and screenwriter behind the Italian mondo “shockumentaries” of the early 1960s that influenced and inspired filmmakers for years to come, died...
Aug 21, 2011 · The filmmaker who made the shockumentary "Mondo Cane" and its sequels passed away in Rome in 2011. He was known for his ironic and controversial documentaries that collected examples of the creepy and bizarre from around the world.
