Mondo Candido (1975)

Review: Mondo Candido (1975)

Director: Gualtiero Jacopetti

Cast: Christopher Brown, Michele Miller, Jacques Herlin, Steffen Zacharias, Gianfranco D'Angelo,

Christopher Brown
Christopher Brown
Michele Miller
Michele Miller
Jacques Herlin
Jacques Herlin
Steffen Zacharias
Steffen Zacharias
Gianfranco D'Angelo
Gianfranco D'Angelo

Plot: Voltaire, a 16th century author was furious that learned members of a "civilized" society could claim that the apparent senseless violence and mayhem wrought by disasters, war, disease, man's cruelty, etc. was actually only a part of some 'greater good'. After all, God (being perfect) could not 'logically' have created anything but the 'best of all possible' universes.

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