Mondo candido

(1975)

★ 5.5 IMDb · 19 votes

Genres: Adventure, Comedy

Year: 1975

Runtime: 107 мин

Country: Italy

Director: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi

Cast: Christopher Brown, Michele Miller, Jacques Herlin, Steffen Zacharias, Gianfranco D'Angelo, Salvatore Baccaro, Alessandro Haber, José Quaglio, Sonia Viviani, Regina Elena Bisio

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.