The cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent.The cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent.The cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent.
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- 2 wins & 1 nomination
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- Self
- (uncredited)
- Self
- (archive footage)
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- Self
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- Self
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- TriviaIn one scene where director Gualteiro Jacopetti and his crew encounter protesters at Dar es Salaam, they are dragged out of the car. Jacopetti suffered a cut after a soldier smashed the car window. He said it was only their Italian passports that saved them from possible death.
- GoofsThere's a scene that shows bodies lined on the ground outside because of lack of space in the morgue, and are surrounded by birds. The subtitles say "The vultures are patiently waiting for their turn, after the operation." The birds are not vultures, but pelicans.
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[last lines]
Narrator: At the end of the Ice Age, a warm current broke this little colony of penguins off of the glaciers of the south and carried them here on huge rafts of ice that melted in the sun. Isolated and without the possibility of returning to their original homeland, they have for centuries been strangers in a strange land that is becoming more and more heated and hostile toward them surrounded by a sea that grows higher and more and more filled with rage. Perhaps a little peace will descend upon these waters sooner or later, before a wave stronger than the others tears them away forever from this last rock that forms the geographic end of the Dark Continent.
- Alternate versionsBefore receiving a UK cinema certificate the film was cut by over 12 minutes and was missing all footage of rotting human corpses and animal killings.
- ConnectionsEdited into Savage Man Savage Beast (1975)
I mean, the directors won an Oscar for cinematography just before this and at one part of the film they are a breath away from being executed, only to be saved by an officer who points out that they are Italian. Now in 2009, and every day forward until the end of civilization, this collection of moving pictures becomes more and more potent, gaining credence with every new low that so-called 'modern' humanity sinks to, with the temporal yet exquisite fruits of it's labor always just out of reach of the masses. AN ABSOLUTE MUST SEE
- dutchbeats
- Dec 16, 2009
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- Africa Addio
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- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1