Videocracy (film)
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Duration Initial DVD release September 7, 2010 (USA) Country SwedenDenmarkUnited KingdomFinland | 6.6/10 Genre Documentary Running time 1h 25m Language EnglishItalian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date 28 August 2009 (2009-08-28) (Sweden)4 September 2009 (2009-09-04) (Italy) Music director Johan Soderberg, Krister Linder, David Osterberg Cast (Silvio Berlusconi), (Flavio Briatore), (Fabrizio Corona), Lele Mora (Lele Mora), (Simona Ventura), Marella Giovannelli (Marella Giovannelli)Similar movies The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 , Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials , Captain America: The First Avenger , Jupiter Ascending , The Avengers , The Last Witch Hunter Tagline The Shame of Europe |
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Videocracy is a 2009 documentary film directed by Swedish-Italian Erik Gandini about Italian television and its impact on Italian culture and politics, and about Silvio Berlusconi's powerful position on all of these. Gandini coined the phrase "The Evilness of Banality" to describe the cultural phenomenon of Berlusconismo, thus making a word play on Hanna Arendt's "Banality of Evil".
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Soon after its theatrical premiere in Sweden, the film was shown at the 66th Venice International Film Festival where it gained massive attention. The trailer for the film has been banned by most Italian television broadcasters.
Videocracy uses the theme song for Silvio Berlusconi's presidential campaign, and now party theme, Meno male che Silvio c'รจ! (loosely translated: Thank God for Silvio!). When first hearing it the film's director Erik Gandini thought it was satire.
Videocracy has won awards at the Toronto International Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, the Golden Graal awards, and the Tempo Documentary Award of 2010. Videocracy was widely distributed internationally, seeing theatrical release in the USA, UK, the Netherlands, France, Poland, and Sweden among other countries. In Italy, where it opened in 90 theaters across the country on the weekend of 4 September 2009, Videocracy came in 4th in box office rankings.
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Plot
The Italian veline phenomenon is explained. We meet young mechanic Ricky who tries to become a TV star, but complains that it is more difficult for a man. TV agent Lele Mora admiringly says that Berlusconi resembles Benito Mussolini. Paparazzo Fabrizio Corona takes embarrassing photographs of celebrities, and asks them for money to not publicize them. He explains that he is a new version of Robin Hood: he steals from the rich, but keeps the money to himself. When he was convicted for extortion, it made him a greater celebrity, and he is now cashing in on this. He is shown full-frontally naked taking a shower.
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