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1 October 2010updated 27 Sep 2015 2:12am

The nightmare of Berlusconi’s media empire

The Film Interview: Erik Gandini on celebrity culture in modern Italy.

By Daniel Trilling

Erik Gandini is a Swedish-Italian director. His film “Videocracy” is a dark psychological study of the power of celebrity culture in Italy and the role of the media empire that belongs to the Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. It won the Special Jury Award at last year’s Sheffield International Documentary Festival.

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