Mondo Cane a somewhat coarse Italian expletive, [ 2 ] literally ' dog world ' is a Italian mondo documentary film and directed by the trio of Gualtiero Jacopetti , Paolo Cavara , and Franco E.
Prosperi , with narration by Stefano Sibaldi. The film consists of a series of travelogue scenes that provide glimpses into cultural practices around the world with the intention to shock or surprise Western film audiences. Despite its claims of genuine documentation, certain scenes are either staged or creatively manipulated to enhance this effect.
The film was an international box-office success and inspired an entire genre of mondo films in the form of exploitation documentaries, many of which also include the word mondo meaning "world" in their title. The musical score by Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero gained considerable popularity outside of the film itself.
At the event the narrator points out similarities in some local men's faces to Valentino's. In the United States, Rossano Brazzi has his shirt torn off by a crowd of adoring female fans hunting for his autograph. At the beach in polyandrous Kiriwina , one of the Trobriand Islands in New Guinea , a large crowd of topless native women run after a handful of men, trying to capture them "not only for autographs".
On the French Riviera , a small group of blonde bikini-clad young women on a boat drive by a ship with U. In a New Guinean Chimbu community, a woman whose child was killed breastfeeds a piglet whose mother died. Also in New Guinea, at a celebration that recurs every five years, in a matter of hours, dozens of pigs are slaughtered by beating on their heads with wooden poles, and eaten, after which the partly cannibalistic community returns to its perpetual state of hunger.
