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Franco Prosperi

Film Director / Screenwriter / Writer | * 01/01/1928 (96) | Roma (Italy)
Franco E. Prosperi (born 1928) is a journalist and marine scientist who became a documentary director and producer. He is best known for his lasting collaboration with Gualtiero Jacopetti in the mondo film genre. His only fictional film was Wild Beasts (Belve feroci). ()

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

Most frequent genres for this person: Documentaries | Horror | Adventure

Known for these Movies & Shows

A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or surprise, including an insect banquet and a memorable ...

Mondo Cane

Certification unknown

1962 | 3.2/5 | 1h 45min
Documentary
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Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade. ...

Goodbye Uncle Tom

Certification unknown

1971 | 3.3/5 | 2h 3min
Drama
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Voltaire, a 16th century author was furious that learned members of a "civilized" society could claim that the apparent senseless violence and mayhem wrought by disasters, war, disease, man's cruelty, ...

Mondo Candido

Certification unknown

1975 | 2.6/5 | 1h 47min
Adventure, Comedy
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PCP is unexplainably released into the Frankfurt water supply and sends the zoo inhabitants crazy. One evening after a malfunction of zoo security the gonzo critters rampage through the city eating an ...

Wild Beasts

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1984 | 2.5/5 | 1h 32min
Action, Adventure, Horror
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Movies with Franco Prosperi as Actor(2)

as Narrator (voice)1983 Sweet and Savage
as himself1971 Goodbye Uncle Tom

Movies with Franco Prosperi as Crew(17)

Directing/Director1984 Wild Beasts
Writing/Screenplay1984 Wild Beasts
Writing/Story1984 Wild Beasts
Directing/Director1975 Mondo Candido
Writing/Story1975 Mondo Candido
Writing/Screenplay1975 Mondo Candido
Directing/Director1971 Goodbye Uncle Tom
Editing/Editor1971 Goodbye Uncle Tom
Production/Producer1971 Goodbye Uncle Tom
Writing/Writer1971 Goodbye Uncle Tom
Directing/Director1966 Africa Addio
Editing/Editor1966 Africa Addio
Writing/Writer1966 Africa Addio
Directing/Director1963 Mondo Cane 2
Directing/Director1963 Women of the World
Writing/Writer1963 Women of the World
Directing/Director1962 Mondo Cane

Full Name: Franco Prosperi
Citizenship: Italy
Born: Sunday, 01/01 1928 (January) in Roma (Italy) (current age: 96 years + 116 days)
Zodiac sign: Capricorn (Chinese zodiac sign: Dragon)
Languages: Italian (IT)
Other names for Franco Prosperi (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Franco E. Prosperi"
Franco Prosperi frequently works together with these people:
Gualtiero Jacopetti (19x, Crew)
Riz Ortolani (5x, Crew)
Antonio Climati (5x, Crew)
Paolo Cavara (4x, Crew)
Mario Morra (3x, Crew)
Angelo Rizzoli (2x, Crew)
Daniele Patucchi (2x, Crew)
Stefano Sibaldi (2x, Actor)
Nino Oliviero (2x, Crew)
Benito Frattari (2x, Crew)
Frederick Ridgard (2x, Crew)

Other people with this name: Franco Prosperi (IT)

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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1454066, Added: 09/05/2019, Last updated: 04/01/2024