Mondo Cane (lit.[You] Dog of a World!, a mild Italian curse) is a 1962 Italian documentary film by Italian filmmakers Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, and Franco Prosperi.
The film consists of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise the mostly Western film audience, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.
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Mondo Cane (lit.[You] Dog of a World!, a mild Italian curse) is a 1962 Italian documentary film by Italian filmmakers Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, and Franco Prosperi.
The film consists of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise the mostly Western film audience, including an insect banquet and a memorable look at a practicing South Pacific cargo cult.
Mondo Cane's shock-exploitation-documentary-exquisite corpse style is credited with starting the long-lived Mondo film genre. It also inspired lampooning, most notably in "Mr. Mike's Mondo Video", written by Saturday Night Live's Michael O'Donoghue and starring members of the contemporary cast of that program.
The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1962 Cannes Film Festival.
The movie's theme song, "More", was written by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero and was given a new lyric in the English language by Norman Newell. In 1964, the song...
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