Videocracy
“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?
Details
Release Date: 8/28/2009
Runtime: 85 minutes
Languages: English, Italian
Director: Erik Gandini
Budget: $0.7M
Revenue: $1.2M
Production
Companies: Atmo Media Network, Zentropa Entertainments, SVT, BBC Storyville, DR, Svenska Filminstitutet, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Det Danske Filminstitut
Countries: Denmark, Finland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Italy
