Les derniers cris de la savane

Mateo is a hunter in Patagonia. He does not want to destroy the balance of nature, he just wants to hunt a stag so he can survive. This film, almost like a documentary, is a story of hunting: some oppose violence to animals, others say it is a part of nature to kill.

Directed and written by Antonio Climati and Mario Morra, who would go on to make more documentaries -- "This Violent World" and "Sweet and Savage", as well as having independent careers as a cinematographer and editor, respectively.

Scenes show hippies in Cape Cod, rallying for animal rights... including a woman who breast-feeds a goat. Plenty of nudity, both male and female. Also, aborigines spearing kangaroos and using boomerangs on bats.

There is also plenty of footage of animals hunting other animals: anaconda, monkeys, jaguar. But the main point seems to be the variety of ways that man hunts animals for food, sport or otherwise.

Guys let's not get carried away here! There are no human death scenes in this, or any Faces of Death for that matter. It's all staged, and all psychological.

They show you a dead body in a morgue,or real animals getting brutally killed. Then show you a guy getting shot by executioners (not in this film,in one of the Faces of Death and I'm just using as an example only),a guy hit by a train, or a guy mauled by lions. Because you saw the real dead body you think every thing else is real. People see these films usually very young, and grow up believing they are real. They are not. There is no debate as others here have stated.

However if you have never seen one of these film, think very long and hard about how much you really do. Even though the human deaths are fake these films are still very unsettling, and you can not unwatch it. It will be with you for the rest of your life, and you will be affected by them.

These are the adventures of Edward Mannix. Whether he be a South American hunter with a fake Spanish accent or various other ethnic groups with equally fake accents, they're all just voice actor Edward Mannix and not "real" interviews with "real" people.

This is like a Mutual of Omaha video gone horribly wrong. This film consists of fake footage mixed in with a little bit of real footage. What makes it so amusing is the cartoonish dubbing and sound FX added in. Seriously, every time a weapon is thrown it's like a 'Woody Woodpecker' cartoon.

Much of the fake footage doesn't even have anything to do with hunting or animal attacks. Such as naked hippies, a group of Frenchmen defecating in the woods, and dozens of Africans humping the soil, literally! It's explained how this is a tribal ritual as they believe their sperm will fertilize the soil. With this many black men humping it's like watching a Sarah Vandella porno without Sarah Vandella. It might be a little more convincing that this is an actual ritual and not just done for pure exploitation if all the tribesmen weren't voiced by Edward Mannix!

There's also plenty of fake footage of Africans masturbating into a river. This is done with extreme close ups and in slow motion directed like a porno complete with close up shots of their cxx faces.

The funniest scenes by far are the fake animal attacks. The best being the lion mauling of a tourist. The lions actually take his 8mm camera away as a prize. As with all mondo films this "real" footage consists of multiple camera angles, and close ups of the victim's distraught family. It's side splitting how fake it is.

Some morons such as the writer of the IMDb summary actually defend it as "real." There are not enough drugs on earth to make one believe this footage is "real." No one could actually believe such a thing.

Next it's mercenaries waging a war against native tribes. Their fake costumes consist of glued on thick eyebrows and mustaches that look like Groucho Marx masks without the glasses. Once again, they're all just Edward Mannix shouting in Spanish. Comically Mannix just shouts the same two words over and over, "andale" and "arriba." So apparently Mannix only studied Spanish from Speedy Gonzales cartoons?

In conclusion, I've never been a fan of mondo cane films but this one has some great laughs. If you enjoy silly exploitation films this is worth a watch.

What I like in this doco is a volume of realistic data rarely seen somewhere else.

DVD I own accomplishes 88 min of 94 minutes a full version presents, and some film scenes are really cut short with censoring in "a free speech world", leaving more to viewer's imagination than it was probably supposed by producers themselves.

With knowledge of a subject and respect, a natural beauty of hunters' bodies have been depicted while broadening viewers' knowledge of a rough reality of a world existing in different time/space dimensions on the Earth simultaneously to civilised digitally-equipped one, by screening a variety of traditional indigenous African rituals, much more logical and cognitive with environment than outdoor copulating of the educated Westerners during youth gatherings.

A scene of annihilating "primitives" of Amazon is uselessly censored perhaps as shoving a member cut off might really emphasised a notion of this work, which is, as understood, convincing in "devil beneath" that is in killing ground of a human nature although lacquered upon the history with challenging laws and orders but well preserved and easily demonstrated on demand of circumstances requiring.

A must to have on a shelf.

Mostly lame Mondo about man's relationship with nature and animals, might have been more shocking in the 1970s, but now it seems like various outtakes leftover from a few National Geographic specials.

Tribesmen on the hunt in footage showing real animal death juxtaposed with hippie shenanigans was both repulsive and silly. Tourist being mauled by lions in Angola was fake, but at least it was better staged than the similar scene in Faces Of Death.

A curious vignette allegedly in Burundi mentions a tribe called Niamey , and a pair of brothers named Kano and Naro Kabila- which is odd, because Niamey is in Niger, and Kabila has roots in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, not Burundi.

The narrator in Faces Of Death was silly and largely false, but at least he was more charismatic and amusing than the dry, flat, monotone narrator heard here.