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Africa Addio (1966) aka Africa, Blood & Guts aka Farewell Africa, directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, uncut remaster, encoded in 10 bit HEVC with AAC sound, including original Italian theatrical stereo and English and German subtitles.
IMDb : https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060073/
Video encoded in two-pass 8 500 kbps x265 10bit with the veryslow preset for archive quality image.
English subtitles converted to SRT, German subtitles converted to VobSub and repositioned.
Note : Some of the creators of the mondo film, Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, return with this look at Africa in the 60s, and hoo boy, is it ever problematic. In addition to the usual parade of animal cruelty, death, and misery that characterizes the genre, it's also extremely racist, and waxes poetic about the "old Africa" of colonial times, now gone forever. However, even though this is almost certainly unintended, the juxtaposition of white colonizers who are by turns pompously old-fashioned and frivolously entertained while Black servants wait on them, tells its own story that's very clear to see today. This is a story of the end of colonialism, and the incredible, cruel mess it left behind for the original inhabitants. Some of it is quite hard to watch and shocking even today, other parts are suprisingly beautiful, and love it or hate it, it's an important document of its time, even though the modern interpretation is probably very different from the creators' original intent.
As usual in mondo film, there's no overarching plot or storyline, but rather a series of vignettes, portraying the colonial powers and their representatives' withdrawal from Africa, and the various conflicts that break out in the aftermath. There's lavish garden parties for white people, but mostly there's war, genocide, mutilation, animal poaching, summary execution, and general death and destruction.
This German remaster is pretty decent quality, though the color is a bit dull and desaturated, but the sometimes quite nice camera work shines through. Sound is serviceable, no commentary tracks or anything.
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General : Matroska / 8.38 GiB / 2 h 18 min / 8 665 kb/s Video : HEVC / [email protected]@Main / 8 499 kb/s / 1 920 x 816 pixels / 2.35:1 / 24.000 FPS / *Default Writing library : x265 3.2.1+1-b5c86a64bbbe:[Linux][GCC 10.2.0][64 bit] 10bit Encoding settings : cpuid=1111039 / frame-threads=5 / wpp / pmode / pme / no-psnr / no-ssim / log-level=2 / input-csp=1 / input-res=1920x816 / interlace=0 / total-frames=0 / level-idc=0 / high-tier=1 / uhd-bd=0 / ref=5 / no-allow-non-conformance / no-repeat-headers / annexb / no-aud / no-hrd / info / hash=0 / no-temporal-layers / open-gop / min-keyint=24 / keyint=240 / gop-lookahead=0 / bframes=8 / b-adapt=2 / b-pyramid / bframe-bias=0 / rc-lookahead=40 / lookahead-slices=0 / scenecut=40 / radl=0 / no-splice / no-intra-refresh / ctu=64 / min-cu-size=8 / rect / amp / max-tu-size=32 / tu-inter-depth=3 / tu-intra-depth=3 / limit-tu=0 / rdoq-level=2 / dynamic-rd=0.00 / no-ssim-rd / signhide / no-tskip / nr-intra=0 / nr-inter=0 / no-constrained-intra / strong-intra-smoothing / max-merge=5 / limit-refs=0 / no-limit-modes / me=3 / subme=4 / merange=57 / temporal-mvp / no-hme / weightp / weightb / no-analyze-src-pics / deblock=0:0 / sao / no-sao-non-deblock / rd=6 / selective-sao=4 / no-early-skip / rskip / no-fast-intra / no-tskip-fast / no-cu-lossless / b-intra / no-splitrd-skip / rdpenalty=0 / psy-rd=2.00 / psy-rdoq=1.00 / no-rd-refine / no-lossless / cbqpoffs=0 / crqpoffs=0 / rc=abr / bitrate=8500 / qcomp=0.60 / qpstep=4 / stats-write=0 / stats-read=2 / cplxblur=20.0 / qblur=0.5 / ipratio=1.40 / pbratio=1.30 / aq-mode=2 / aq-strength=1.00 / cutree / zone-count=0 / no-strict-cbr / qg-size=32 / no-rc-grain / qpmax=69 / qpmin=0 / no-const-vbv / sar=1 / overscan=0 / videoformat=5 / range=0 / colorprim=1 / transfer=1 / colormatrix=1 / chromaloc=0 / display-window=0 / cll=0,0 / min-luma=0 / max-luma=1023 / log2-max-poc-lsb=8 / vui-timing-info / vui-hrd-info / slices=1 / no-opt-qp-pps / no-opt-ref-list-length-pps / no-multi-pass-opt-rps / scenecut-bias=0.05 / no-opt-cu-delta-qp / no-aq-motion / no-hdr / no-hdr-opt / no-dhdr10-opt / no-idr-recovery-sei / analysis-reuse-level=5 / scale-factor=0 / refine-intra=0 / refine-inter=0 / refine-mv=1 / refine-ctu-distortion=0 / no-limit-sao / ctu-info=0 / no-lowpass-dct / refine-analysis-type=0 / copy-pic=1 / max-ausize-factor=1.0 / no-dynamic-refine / no-single-sei / no-hevc-aq / no-svt / no-field / qp-adaptation-range=1.00 Audio #1 : AAC LC / 160 kb/s / 2 channels / Original Italian theatrical stereo / Italian / *Default Text #1 : SRT / 42 b/s / English Text #2 : VobSub / 5 026 b/s / German Chapters: 00:00:00.000 : Chapter 1 00:16:53.792 : Chapter 2 00:34:11.375 : Chapter 3 00:56:11.667 : Chapter 4 01:15:43.792 : Chapter 5 01:29:25.125 : Chapter 6 01:46:22.875 : Chapter 7 02:02:05.667 : Chapter 8
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Encoded from Africa.Addio.1966.1080p.BluRay.Remux-TRiBE.mkv [25.6 Mb/s]
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