Mandinga (1976)
- 1976
- ·86 min
El propietario de una plantación del Viejo Sur codicia a sus esclavas.
- Actores
- Antonio Gismondo·Maria Rosaria Riuzzi·Paola D'Egidio·Serafino Profumo
- Dirigido por
- Mario Pinzauti
- Género
- Adventure·Drama
- Idioma
- Italian
- País
- Italy
- Director
- Mario Pinzauti
Incredibly hilarious mid-70's Italian Rootsploitation with lots of non-consensual S&M, lesbian sex, gratuitous racial cruelty etc...Few redeeming cinematic qualities, except for the fairly cool theme music with dubby "African" drums and flute.
Obviously made on the cheap to capitalize on the notorious "Mandingo," this crassly pandering hunk of blithely rancid Italian sexploitation junk really pours on the sordid stuff with a commendable lack of taste and restraint: The evil arrogant white family who own and operate a lavish slave plantation spend a majority of the screen time engaging in hanky panky both each other and their various slaves. Director Mario Penzauti and screenwriter Tecla Romanelli cram this fetid filth with a teeming surplus of sizzling sleaze: we've got nasty rape, interracial copulation (one white lady makes wild love to a muscular black stud while he's tied to a cross), copious female nudity, brutal whippings, vile degradation, lots of lurid soft-core sex, and a severely twisted tragic surprise ending that mixes elements of incest, murder and miscegenation in a questionable attempt at making a statement about the horrid inhumanity of slavery.
Okay, maybe it doesn't, but one has to ask what kind of God would allow such a thing? This is the Italian version of the "B" classic "Mandingo.
