Description
Probing cameras delve the world's incredible secrets: college students in Berlin slash each other in ritualistic duels; sleeping infants in a Japanese nursery are persuaded through hypno-pedagogy to refrain from bedwetting; karate is demonstrated in Japan; at the annual New Year's Debutante Ball at the Paris Opera, young women parade jewels valued at more than 2 billion francs, while the "clochards" hold their own celebration on the banks of the Seine; a family of French circus performers drives a motorcycle on a steel wire stretched across an Alpine village; a young man takes his vows in a Grecian monastery; an initiate is doused with chicken blood in a London black mass celebration; Rio de Janeiro holds its annual Mardi Gras carnival; tourists enjoy the performance of a tribal dance in Nairobi, while, around the corner, members of the same tribe dance the twist; guests at a hotel in the Myeri Game Reserve watch wild animals a few feet away; housewives in Reno watch a male weightlifting exhibition, while a stripper in San Francisco exhibits her strength to an all-male audience; Portuguese whalers use hand-held harpoons to hunt their quarry from small rowboats; young Swedish toughs arrive in Stockholm blinking their automobile headlights to attract interested girls; an enormous throng of near-naked youths fight to retrieve a ritual stick in the Japanese "Festival of Saidachi"; the Grand Guignol Theater in Paris, throne of blood and horror, gives its final performance; members of the "Tasses Fesses," a French society, meet to admire the female buttocks; workers at Les Halles in Paris watch an unusual nightclub act during a "cognac break"; two women's roller derby teams battle for supremacy in Los Angeles; Evon Evah, a Parisian stoic, bloodlessly pierces his body with long needles; reindeer in Lapland are herded together and castrated; lesbians perform in a Paris nightclub act; Maria Soriano, a 6-foot, 204 lb. stripper, becomes the most popular singer in Argentina; doctors in Exeter, England, artificially inseminate an infertile patient; and a woman in Rome climbs the stairway to the church of the Arachelle on her knees to ask the blessing of a child.
This Shocking World, Mondo di Notte - Welt ohne Scham, Le monde de nuit numéro trois, Original title: Il mondo di notte numero 3, Mondo di Notte - Welt ohne Scham, Le monde de nuit numéro trois
