Videocracy (15)
- Consumer Advice: Contains strong language and sexualised nudity
- Run time: 1 hour 24 mins
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 4th June 2010
- Starring: Silvio Berlusconi, Flavio Briatore, Fabrizio Corona
- Directed by: Erik Gandini
- Official Website: www.atmo.se/film-and-tv/videocracy
- Distributor: Dogwoof Pictures
Plot Synopsis
Silvio Berlusconi is the most powerful man in Italy, wielding authority and influence across the media, where he controls 90 per cent of television, and in politics, where he is prime minister. He even owns one of the country’s biggest football teams, AC Milan.
His influence over television for three decades has led to a daily diet of scantily clad women who say little but stand around looking pretty, older male presenters who lord it over them, paparazzi gone mad and reality and quiz show hell ...