This film is about tribes in Africa and South America who turn toward magic as a means of survival and way of life.
Direction
Castiglioni brothers pioneered the mondo template of staged reality.
Editing
Hypnotic cuts between continents, collapsing context into shock.
Director
Alfredo Castiglioni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'mondo' genre spawned by Mondo Cane (1962), this film helped establish the template of sensationalist pseudo-documentary that influenced everything from Faces of Death to modern true crime.
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