Italian Genre Cinema Collection No. 8
Candide, lovelorn youth and eternal seeker from the pages of Voltaire’s immortal classic novel, finds himself thrown out of an entirely comfortable castle after his affection for the baron’s daughter Cunegonde went a little too far down her thighs for her father’s taste. So, Candide embarks on a wildly fantastic odyssey through space and time, from the battlefields of east and west into the arms of the Holy Inquisition and straight into modern Manhattan, always hot on the heels of his one true love who has, however, succumbed to group sex and drugs long ago. Finally, Candide sees the world he once tried to understand for what it really is: an immoral reflection of its degenerated inhabitants.
MONDO CANDIDO finds colourful pictures for this epiphany, drenched equally in genius and madness. Gualtiero Jacopetti’s last film (his co-director Franco Prosperi later gave us the brilliant animal exploiter WILD BEASTS) is a delirious masterpiece, a wild trip chock-full of composer Riz Ortolani, and ultimately a final proof for Jacopetti’s theory that man has gone to the dogs already. MONDO CANDIDO is his bizarre legacy.
Extras DVD
(* with optional English Subtitles)
- Audio Commentary* by Film Historians Christian Keßler and Marcus Stiglegger
- Booklet by Federico Caddeo
Extras Bonus-DVD
(* with opional German and English Subtitles)
- "Around the World in 15 Years": Documentary* with Franco Prosperi und Gualtiero Jacopetti
- "A Farewell to Mondo": Featurette* with Franco Prosperi
- "Making up Voltaire": Featurette* with Makeup-Artist Pier Antonio Mecacci
- "Just 'Une Connerie'?": Featurette* with Federico Caddeo
- Italian Trailer
- Photo Gallery
Technical Specifications
- 107 min, Color
- Italian and German Language in Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
- English and German Subtitles
- 2,35:1, 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen
- Region: 2
Original title: MONDO CANDIDO
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Italy, 1975
Directors: G. Jacopetti & F. Prosperi
Starring: Christopher Brown, Michelle Miller, Jacques Herlin, Gianfranco D`Angelo, José Quaglio
SKU: CO008
