Top Billed Cast
Sergio Rossi
Narrator (voice)
Jomo Kenyatta
(archive footage)
Gualtiero Jacopetti
Himself (uncredited)
Julius Nyerere
Himself (uncredited)
Moïse Kapenda Tshombe
Himself (uncredited)
Richard Gordon Turnbull
Himself (uncredited)
Ian Yule
Himself (uncredited)
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A review by adorablepanic
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Written by adorablepanic on Thu Apr 02 2020
AFRICA ADDIO (1966) is a difficult work to evaluate. Released at a time when most major media resources were focused on the Vietnam War, co-directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi were among a very, very small group of people documenting the unrest which accompanied the decolonization of Africa. More than 50 years after its release, this is still a brutally graphic film: human death is captured on camera, up-close and unsimulated; hippopotami and elephants are attacked with spears until they resemble living pin-cushions, only expiring after suffering prolonged and agonizing brutality;...
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