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Release Date: 2009   Duration: 85 min

Cast: Flavio Briatore, Lele Mora, Nina Heric, Fabio Calvi, Fabrizio Corona, Simona Ventura

Categories: Movies, Culture & Society, World cinema, Film, Film & Television History, War film, Political drama, Social issues, Documentary

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 in these. Erik 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. Soon after its   MORE

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 in these. Erik 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. 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 tune to Silvio Berlusconi's presidential campaign and now party theme, Meno male che Silvio c'è!. When first hearing it Videocracy's director Erik Gandini thought it was satire. Videocracy has won awards at Toronto Film Festival, Sheffield Doc/Fest, the Golden Graal awards and the Tempo Documentary Award 2010. Videocracy has been widely distributed internationally, released theatrically in the USA, UK, Holland, France, Poland, Sweden among other. In Italy where it opened in 90 theaters across the country on the weekend of September 4, 2009, Videocracy became 4th in the Box Office rankings. LESS