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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- 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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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)
The atrocities against the animals in this documentary absolutely made me sick. Animals are slaughtered relentlessly, cruelly and for no reason other than the sport of it. I wanted those wild animals to rip their killers to shreds. At least once it would have been nice to see one of the poachers ripped to shreds by the elephants, lions and hippos.
It never ceases to sicken me how a man with a gun thinks he has really accomplished something by shooting an animal. Watching the men stand proudly with their gun over the carcass of an animal for a photo just makes me sick. They should all have been fed to the lions.
This documentary proves one thing and one thing only. Humans are the sickest and cruelest animals on the planet.
- rwduke
- Sep 27, 2004
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- Africa Addio
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- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1