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In Silvio Berlusconi's Italy, if you're not on television, you're nobody. In VIDEOCRACY, director Erik Gandini reveals the seedy underbelly of the country's high-glitz, lowbrow, celebrity-obsessed culture promulgated by the near-monopoly of Berlusconi's media empire. Gandini gains unparalleled access to the halls of power, following a fascistic TV agent, narcissistic paparazzi, glassy-eyed reality "stars," and the young men and scantily-clad women auditioning to debase themselves on camera. All yearn to be FOB (friends of Berlusconi), from the "Italian Van Damme" to whit-suited billionaires, eager to please the president by actively shaping public opinion to his financial and political benefit. Utilizing a wide variety of damning footage, including a trivia show striptease, local TV girl auditions (they dance but are not allowed to talk), and a garish election campaign video ("Thank God for Silvio"), Gandini proves that Italy invests new meaning in the term "boob tube."
Original Release
12/31/2008
US Release
12/31/2008
Cast
Name | Character |
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Flavio Briatore | Self / Flavio Briatore |
Fabio Calvi | Self |
Riccardo Canevali | Self |
Fabrizio Corona | Self / Fabrizio Corona |
Samantha Crippa | Self |
Marella Giovannelli | Self / Marella Giovannelli |
Nina Heric | Self |
Lele Mora | Self / Lele Mora |
Franco Nero | Self |
Lorenzo Paolini | Self |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Flavio Briatore | Self / Flavio Briatore |
Fabio Calvi | Self |
Riccardo Canevali | Self |
Fabrizio Corona | Self / Fabrizio Corona |
Samantha Crippa | Self |
Marella Giovannelli | Self / Marella Giovannelli |
Nina Heric | Self |
Lele Mora | Self / Lele Mora |
Franco Nero | Self |
Lorenzo Paolini | Self |
Simona Ventura | Self / Simona Ventura |
Rick Canelli | Rick Canelli |
Jerry Lee | Self / Silvio Berlusconi |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Kristina Åberg | Executive Producer |
Erik Gandini | Producer |
Axel Arnö | Producer |
Tobias Fønsskov Dahl | Producer |
Ann-Louice Dahlgren | Producer |
Mikael Olsen | Producer |
Hanna Storby | Producer |