Too much of everything

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Africa Addio is an enlightening and shocking documentary that took three years to complete. However, the film's back story can date back for two centuries explicating the rise of industrialization and human progress to the indefinite ruin of a continent that seemingly had enormous potential. I love this film. It is grainy, gritty and commits to its intentions with intrepidity.Many of the film's detractors have expressed their weak arguments of hurling accusations of racism, staging and dishonesty. These critics are far from correct an all three indictments. Africa Addio discursively shows how a talented group of European settlers, with enterprising and humanistic intentions, developed nations in Africa. They served as benefactors to the savage Negroes and allowed them to work and partake in their culture on the white man's terms. Africa Addio begins where we see apartheid ending. However, this process of eliminating apartheid would continue to disseminate for a couple more decades. I doubt many of the scenes were staged, but when making films, even documentaries, a director with a mission and incisive viewpoint wants to convey a particular idea. The idea here is that Negroes are savage and uncivilized beasts that cannot be trusted if left to their own devices. We can debate for hours whether or not White colonization was morally right or wrong, but we must also admit that the racial differences is what leads to the downfall of both white and black. Africa Addio does a compelling job at ennobling whites as an intelligent, beautiful and prosperous people that engendered too much trust and compassion for a very feral race unsuited for Western law. Africa Addio is a controversial documentary due to its divisive content. If you are racially sensitive or too politically correct to open your mind to fact and reality, then this film is best to be avoided. But I sincerely admire this film for its courage to dwell in hostile environments where one's life is highly at risk.

Africa Addio(Also known as Goodbye Africa or Africa: Blood and Guts) is one of the most interesting documentaries I have ever seen. It portrays Africa in the 1960's compared to the Africa today. This movie was created by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi(Remember Mondo Cane?), who spent three years documenting the most shocking, disturbing, surprising, and even strange events ever caught on camera. From the lynching of Muslims at Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam, Taganikya(now Tanzania) to poachers(white and black)running wild to slaughter animals as they please. From the execution of a criminal(ate a guy's liver and burned 27 kids alive) by a mercenary to the trials of criminals involved during the Mau Mau Uprising(Including flashbacks of the crimes taken place(One included dead baboons on nooses and then the cows with severed tendons by Jomo Kanari). And from the tragic story of a baby zebra who lost its mother to the mercenaries battling against the Simba Rebels at the Congo(Which also included the gruesome aftermath of the massacre at Stanleyville(Now known as Kisangani)). While human and animal deaths are grotesque and not for the faint of heart, there were historical events(The Zanzibar and Mau Mau incidents) that have taken place. Oh, did I mention the part where Jacopetti(Yes, that was him on camera when he and Prosperi were taken out of the car at Dar Es Salaam. I think. LOL) and Prosperi nearly got iced? This movie was so reckless, so intriguing, so dangerous that is sparked a firestorm of controversy. You simply can't find any documentary like Africa Addio anywhere else!

Quite the conundrum, 80% of the comments focus only on the violence, which is extreme and relentless at times. It should also be noted that the film clocks in at 2 hours and 20 minutes, and, there is a whole other world being presented when the violence stops. Quite simply, the cinematography will knock your socks off; we're talking major motion picture stuff with an original score that keeps evolving and is quite breathtaking(i still haven't seen this on a big screen but, wow). Speaking of breathtaking, visually this film is a feast for the eyes, it's hard to believe at times that i'm watching a documentary; a documentary that will open you up and get inside you and everyone that sees it, with no pun intended and no shame. As someone else said here, it is 'an uneasy time capsule'. The brutality, perfectly balanced with tender and profound beauty. Real situations balanced with oddity and humor.I mean, the directors won an Oscar for cinematography just before this and at one part of the film they are a breath away from being executed, only to be saved by an officer who points out that they are Italian. Now in 2009, and every day forward until the end of civilization, this collection of moving pictures becomes more and more potent, gaining credence with every new low that so-called 'modern' humanity sinks to, with the temporal yet exquisite fruits of it's labor always just out of reach of the masses. AN ABSOLUTE MUST SEE

First of all I must say I'm currently filled with disgust with many of the comments expressed here. There is no reason for whites to take pleasure debasing themselves for acts they haven't personally been part of. If readers involved are so humane to forgive blacks for their past faults against whites (some of them portrayed in this very documentary), why can't they reciprocate this forgiveness for white men as well. The answer is more than obvious: their "humane" anti-racism is nothing more than mindless anti-WHITE racism using a rehashed Marxist rhetoric.That being said, this unique documentary tries to cover the critical period when, caught between a climate of social unrest in their home countries (fuelled by "progressives" of the above type) and soviet-backed rebellions in their colonies, Europeans powers started to withdraw from their possessions. While doing so, they left behind their houses, their roads, their cities, their electricity, their civilization and never forgot to pour in billions in foreign aid for what soon became a hungry continent. How did the post-colonial regimes reciprocate? - They raped and massacred white nurses, who came there to provide FREE MEDICAL CARE for them. When a couple of white mercenaries went into a rescue mission and captured the ones involved in these unspeakable acts, one of the misguided viewers feels empathy for the black murderers (but none at all for the massacred white nurses)...They seized white estates using a "Africa for the Africans" rhetoric. Not a single "anti-racist" objects to this RACE right, although if we'd claim exactly the same for ourselves that would be, in their mind, "racism". Absolutely no compensation was given to the owners, as the movie shows. Once occupied by their "rightful" owners (according to anti-racists), estates went into normal African dereliction, horses were eaten and farmlands yielded no more crops. In no time, the same nation was begging for white man's MORAL DUTY TO HELP, although no amount of white financial compassion seems able to curb the "white devil" holly truth. Fact is, as the movie shows, each and every black African country followed exactly the same path: whites' properties seizing, dictatorship, bloody civil wars, begging for foreign aid, then while cashing in for the aid complaining that whites try to resurrect the colonial system by keeping blacks in a receiving state... Zimbabwe is the most recent example, while the acclaimed "new" South-Africa, where whites have been compelled through draconian international sanction to hand over the country they've built to its "rightful owners", represented through the voice of black communist leaders taught how to apply class struggle theories to a race struggle reality.They tried to line up and execute all remaining whites (Congo), only to be narrowly rescued by an US Commando. This act caused international uproar not because of Afro-Communist Congolese government's intention, but for US' intrusion into a sovereign nation's businesses...Soon upon consuming what whites left behind, African nations developed into Marxist dictatorships, as practically all of the "liberation movements" were backed by Soviet Union. The "dear leaders" imposed draconian control over their subjects, becoming unspeakably rich communists, while their naturally apathetic African subjects sunk into even greater destitution. The absurd linear borders, who kept rival tribes within the same country, while splitting others between two countries, have also contributed to an intrinsic lack of stability in African countries, where ethnic-based militia battle for dominance on ruins of a former colony.Ultimately, this movie is unique among its own kind by showing glimpses of empathy for whites, which is quite simply considered RACIST (!) these days.