Videocracy (2009)
The Shame of Europe
In a country where bella figura is a national pastime, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is the maestro of media manipulation. Having risen to political primacy with the aid of his Mediaset empire, he now controls 90% of the bel paese’s television channels including the state-run RAI network. Quantity, it seems, does not equal quality. Fed on a diet of semi-naked dancing girls, inane competitions and rickety reality shows built around the most ridiculous of premises, is it any wonder that Italians are becoming a nation of fame-hungry wannabes?
- Date of release
- 2009-08-28
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (50)
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Erik Gandini
Casting
- Silvio Berlusconi — Silvio Berlusconi
- Flavio Briatore — Flavio Briatore
- Fabrizio Corona — Fabrizio Corona
- Lele Mora — Lele Mora
- Simona Ventura — Simona Ventura
- Marella Giovannelli — Marella Giovannelli
- Rick Canelli — Rick Canelli
Interesting facts
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 Berlusconism, thus making a word play on Hannah Arendt's "Banality of Evil".
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