Viva Zapatero!
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| Directed by | Sabina Guzzanti |
| Produced by | Andrea Occhipinti, Sabina Guzzanti |
| Written by | Sabina Guzzanti |
| Starring | Sabina Guzzanti |
| Music by | Riccardo Giagni |
| Cinematography | Paolo Santolini |
| Edited by | Clelio Benevento |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
Viva Zapatero! is a 2005 documentary by Sabina Guzzanti telling her side of the story regarding the conflict with Silvio Berlusconi over a late-night TV political satire show broadcast on RAI-3.
The show, RAIot (a play on the name of the Italian state public TV: RAI, and the English word riot), lampooned prime minister Berlusconi. Since it wasn't considered a satirical show, but a political one, it was cancelled after the first episode.
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Origin
Viva Zapatero! is titled after the famous "Viva Zapata!" and it also refers to the Spanish prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who, immediately after gaining power in Spain, ensured that the head of the state-run public broadcaster would no longer be a political appointee[citation needed](as opposed to Italy).
Story
The TV broadcasting of the satirical program RAIot was censored in November 2003 after the comedienne, Sabina Guzzanti, made outspoken criticism of the Berlusconi media empire. Mediaset, one of Berlusconi's companies, sued the Italian state broadcasting company RAI because of the Guzzanti show asking for 20 million Euro for "damages" and from November 2003 she was forced to appear only in theatres around Italy.
After the show was cancelled, Guzzanti tried fruitlessly to get it reinstated, in spite of the fact that a judge dismissed the case that initially resulted in the termination of the show. Her struggle however, did result in this film. The documentary openly reveals censorship laws that Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is presently imposing on the country's freedom of speech. It is seen by some as Italy's "Fahrenheit 9/11."[citation needed]
In August 2005, it was the sleeper hit of the Venice International Film Festival, receiving a 15-minute standing ovation after its premiere screening. When it opened in Italian theaters, over 200,000 people went to see it in the first week. Its success resulted in an invitation to the 2006 Sundance Film Festival.
Awards
Official Selection - Sundance Film Festival 2006
Official Selection - Tribeca Film Festival 2006
See also
External links
- Official site
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Viva Zapatero! at IMDb
- Viva Zapatero!
- 'Viva Zapatero' and Italian Censorship A film about free speech and the state of the Italian media
- Filmmakers bugged about Berlusconi
- Viva Zapatero! – Towards a new type of information in Italy?
- european-films.net review written by Boyd van Hoeij
- Movie Night: Viva Zapatero
- Viva Zapatero! (2005)
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