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Africa Addio
1966 Italian mondo film
| Africa Addio | |
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1970 United States theatrical release poster, bearing the title Africa Blood and Guts | |
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| Produced by | Angelo Rizzoli |
| Narrated by | Sergio Rossi |
| Cinematography | Antonio Climati |
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| Music by | Riz Ortolani |
Production | Cineriz |
| Distributed by | Rizzoli (United States) |
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Running time | 140 minutes |
| Language | Italian |
| Box office | $2 million (Italy)[1] |
Africa Addio (lit. 'Goodbye Africa' or 'Farewell Africa'; also known as Africa: Blood and Guts in the United States and Farewell Africa in the United Kingdom) is a 1966 Italian mondodocumentary film co-directed, co-edited and co-written by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi with music by Riz Ortolani. Jaco
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Strongly artistic, multifaceted, innovative, can best describe Riz Ortolani’s personality, composer and orchestra director with a production background that spans from the cinema to the theatre, from classical music to television programs.
Not yet twenty, after graduating from the Gioachino Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, his city, he moved to Rome, where he joined a group of young instrumentalists of the RAI orchestra. He soon stood out to the company managers, who assigned him to direct a jazz-symphony orchestra, resulting in immediate popularity.
His movie career started in 1962 with the sound track for the Mondo Cane documentary. The main song in the movie, More, sung by Katyna Ranieri (his wife), results in an Oscar Nomination in 1964 as “Best Theme Song” and wins the Grammy Award as “Best Instrumental Theme”. More was recorded by more than one thousand of the greatest artists in the world with 70 million records sold. Ortolani was the fist Italian musician to receive suc
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Riz Ortolani
His movie career started in 1962 with the soundtrack for the Mondo Cane documentary. The main song in the movie, More, sung by Katyna Ranieri (his wife), resulted in an Oscar Nomination in 1964 as “Best Theme Song” and won the Grammy Award as “Best Instrumental Theme”. More went on to be recorded by over a thousand different artists and is one of the most covered songs in music history. Ortolani went on to score many movies for the Hollywood movie studios working, with directors like Vittorio De Sica, Dino Risi, Franco Zeffirelli, Terence Young, and Edward Dmytryk, as well as having long and fruitful artistic associations in Italy with Damiano Damiani and Pupi Avati. His scores include from Mondo Cane, The Easy Life, Anzio, Farewell Africa, The Yellow Rolls Royce, Women of the World, Valachi Papers, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Ma Quando Arrivano Le Ragazze, La Rivincita di Natale, Il Papà di Giovanna and Una Sconfinata Giovinezza.
In recent years the ever innovative com