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GDM Music presents on CD the OST by Riz Ortolani for the documentary movie Addio zio Tom (aka Goodbye Uncle Tom ) directed in 1971 by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, famous for having started in 1962 the Mondo movie genre with the movie Mondo cane whose main theme "More" by Oliviero - Ortolani has become an hit around the world. Addio zio Tom is an historic documentary that penetrates in the slave-driver America of the nineteenth century, photographed by two authors in a subjective shot, interviewers projected in the past and struggling with bizarre and embarrassing characters, all involved in the traffic of African men and women, all is proposed as a huge and shocking social satire. The music score by Riz Ortolani suitably emphasizes the good and the evil, the sacred and the profane described in the motion picture alternating a main romantic love theme (also performed by Katyna Ranieri) to Beat, classical and band music. For this Italian CD premiere the stereo master tape of the original album has been used and five inedit tracks have been added properly restored and remastered in digital.