Beyond Citizen Kane (1993)

Name: Beyond Citizen Kane
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1993-09-01
Cast: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Chico Buarque, Leonel Brizola, Antônio Carlos Magalhães, Washington Olivetto

Documentary

Release Date:	1993, September 1
Directors:	Simon Hartog
Countries:	United Kingdom
Production:	Large Door Ltd., Channel 4 Television
Cast:	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Chico Buarque, Leonel Brizola, Antônio Carlos Magalhães, Washington Olivetto, Roberto Marinho

Overview:

Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and broadcast on Channel 4. It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group in the Brazilian society, discussing the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho came in for particular criticism, being compared with fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane, created by Orson Welles for the 1941 film Citizen Kane. According to the documentary, Marinho's media group engages in the same Kane wholesale manipulation of news to influence the public opinion.

Keywords:

politics alienation revelation militarism media

BigList Rating:	0
Critics Rating:	77

Beyond Citizen Kane (1993)

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