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Mondo Cane (a somewhat coarse Italian expletive, [2] literally ' dog world ') is a 1962 Italian mondo documentary film and directed by the trio of Gualtiero Jacopetti, Paolo Cavara, and Franco E. Prosperi, with narration by Stefano Sibaldi.
In the early 1950s, Ortolani was founder and member of a well-known Italian jazz band. One of his early film scores was for Paolo Cavara and Gualtiero Jacopetti's 1962 pseudo-documentary Mondo Cane, whose main title-song More earned him a Grammy and was also nominated for an Oscar as Best Song.
In 1960, he approached his colleagues Franco Prosperi and Paolo Cavara with the unusual idea of making an "anti-documentary". [2] The result, which premiered in 1962, was Mondo Cane (which roughly translates to A Dog's World, a minor curse in Italian), a non-narrative compilation of shocking and unusual footage from around the world.
Although earlier films such as Alessandro Blasetti's Europa di notte [] (Europe by Night or European Nights, 1959) and Luigi Vanzi's [] Il mondo di notte [] (World by Night, 1960) may be considered examples of the genre, [3] the origins of the mondo documentary are generally traced to the 1962 Italian film Mondo Cane (A Dog's World—a mild Italian profanity) by Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero ...
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video is a 1979 American Mondo-Mockumentary film conceived and directed by Saturday Night Live writer/featured player Michael O'Donoghue.It is a spoof of the controversial 1962 documentary Mondo Cane, showing people doing weird stunts (the logo for Mr. Mike's Mondo Video copies the original Mondo Cane logo).
Mondo Cane: Mondo cane: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi: documentary: Academy Award for Best Song nominee. A Queen for Caesar: Una regina per Cesare: Piero Pierotti, Victor Tourjansky: Redhead: La rossa: Helmut Käutner: drama: Roaring Years: Gli Anni ruggenti: Luigi Zampa: Nino Manfredi, Gino Cervi, Michèle Mercier: comedy (commedia all ...
The film Mondo Cane is a documentary, and uses a variety of music to accompany various segments. Some melodies are used repeatedly, in different styles, each named for the part of the movie where the music is used. Of the 15 music tracks on the soundtrack album, one melody is presented 6 times, another melody 2 times.
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