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Africa Addio is an Italian movie documentary made in 1966 about the end of the colonial era in Africa. The film was released under the names "Africa Blood and Guts" in the USA and "Farewell Africa" in the UK. The movie documents some of the disruptions caused by decolonization, such as poaching in former animal preserves and bloody revolutions, including the Zanzibar revolution which resulted in the massacre of approximately 5000 Arabs in 1964.[1] A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ...
The Zanzibar revolution of January 12, 1964 was the rebellion that overthrew Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah, and led to the proclamation of Zanzibar as a republic, and three months later, to Zanzibars uniting with Tanganyika to form Tanzania. ...
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The documentary was written, directed, and edited jointly by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi and was narrated by Sergio Rossi (not the fashion designer with the same name). Gualtiero Jacopetti (September 4, 1919 in Barga, Lucca, Toscana,Italy) is an Italian director of documentary films. ...
Controversy - Many of the scenes (however true) appear to contain gratuitous violence. That is, the excessive violence might be for shock value or considered as historic archive.
"On the evening of 2 August 1966 SDS students and members of African student groups held a demonstration at the Astor cinema on the Kurfürstendamm against the film Africa Addio by the Italian director Gualtiero Jacopetti. The film had already been banned as racist in Italy and England, and the left-liberal newspaper Der Abend described Jacopetti as a well known ‘racist, colonialist fascist’."[2] Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund(SDS) Der Sozialistische Deutsche Studentenbund (Socialist German Student Union) was founded 1946 in Hamburg, Germany, as the college organisation of the SPD(Socialdemocratic Party of Germany). ...
The Kurfürstendamm, Berlins upscale retail neighbourhood The Kurfürstendamm is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin, Germany. ...
Gualtiero Jacopetti (September 4, 1919 in Barga, Lucca, Toscana,Italy) is an Italian director of documentary films. ...
- Like many movies, this one has been viciously cut. The original portrayed roughly even blame for the events between the native Africans and European colonial powers. This balance was not always maintained in the cut versions, however, such as the 1970 USA release with 57 minutes cut.
References - ^ Plekhanov, Sergeĭ. A Reformer on the Throne: Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Al Said. Trident Press Ltd, 91. ISBN 1-9007-2470-7.
- ^ Thomas, Nick (2003). Protest Movements in 1960s West Germany: A Social History of Dissent and Democracy, p. 95.
External links - IMDB review
- A review by Conrad H. Roth
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