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"SATIRA AMARA DI UNA NAZIONE, NON DI UN LEADER"


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Italian cinema
Lampooning a nation, not a leader


A film based on Italy's prime minister
Mar 30th 2006
From The Economist print edition


RARELY can a film have been awaited by politicians with greater consternation than Il caimano (The Cayman), which came out on March 24th—right in the midst of Italy's general election campaign. Almost the only things known about it in advance were: 1) that it was being made by the country's most celebrated director, Nanni Moretti and 2) that its subject matter, directly or indirectly, was the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi...


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