Videocracy (movie)
- User score: 6.4
- Production country: Denmark, Finland, United Kingdom, Sweden
- Producer: Erik Gandini
- Production companies: Atmo Media Network
- Genre: Documentary
- Budget: $700,000
- Revenue: $1,179,676
- Release date: 8/28/2009
- Run time: 85 min.
Movie description
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?
