Alfredo Castiglioni

This film is about tribes in Africa and South America who turn toward magic as a means of survival and way of life.

Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.

A Castiglioni Brothers mondo film about the practices and rites of several native African tribes.

A Mondo documentary following the customs and rites of passage of various tribes in Africa.

Documentary about French Equatorial Africa, including sequences on adult circumcision rites of Bariba tribe; whipping of young Peuls; a secret asylum in the jungle; new-born tattooing in Haussa tribe; Muslim Tabaski tribe's rites; blood rites.

The images of this film were made in 1969 by the Mundari shepherds, in Sudan, one year before the first exploration of the upper Nile Bianco. The rituals and costumes of this ethnic group were non-changeable.