Beyond Citizen Kane
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- Documentary
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
- alienation
- revelation
- politics
- media
- militarism
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 1, 1993
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English, Portuguese
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Channel 4 Television,Large Door Ltd.
- Cast
- Dias Gomes,Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva,Washington Olivetto,Walter Clark,Armando Nogueira,Roberto Marinho,Leonel Brizola,Chico Buarque,Antônio Carlos Magalhães
- Director
- Simon Hartog
- Writer
- Simon Hartog
- Producer
- John Ellis
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt1356393