Franco Prosperi

Directing

January 1, 1928

Roma, Italy

3 movies

Biography

Franco Prosperi is an Italian ethnographic filmmaker. He is a pioneer, with Gualtiero Jacopetti and Paolo Cavara, of the mondo genre.

🎬 Franco Prosperi's Filmography

3 movies sorted by popularity

6.6

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

Goodbye Uncle Tom

1971

4.0

A Mondo documentary that juxtaposes footage of death, carnage, and unpleasantness with scenes of inspiring and beautiful imagery.

Sweet and Savage

1983

The documentary's main focus is on the works and some controversial episodes from personal life of Gualtiero Jacopetti, one of the originators of mondo films, also called "shockumentaries".

The Importance of Being Uncomfortable: Gualtiero Jacopetti

2012