“Berlusconi is too ‘divisive’, many say. No, the thing is simpler: such a disqualified and indecent character cannot become President of the Republic “. The director writes it Nanni Moretti in an Instagram post, as a comment on an image taken from his film Il Caimano.
The film, released in 2006, told the story of a B series film producer, Bruno Bonomo (Silvio Orlando), who tries to save himself from bankruptcy thanks to the script of a young director (Jasmine Trinca), focusing on the life of Silvio Berlusconi and titled precisely The Caiman. Despite the resistance of the production and the defection of the leading actor in charge of playing the Knight, Bonomo uses all his finances to shoot the film. However, only the last scene is completed: Berlusconi enters the court to attend the reading of the sentence of a trial that sees him accused and is sentenced to 7 years. Outside the classroom, however, he is cheered by the fucks, unlike the judges. The latter in fact become the victim of the same festive audience as before, which throws everything at them, including Molotov cocktails. Moretti was also one of the founders of the so-called ‘girotondi ‘, born in the early 2000s: demonstrations in defense of the principles of democracy and legality. The protest was aimed precisely at the current leader of Forza Italia, at the time Prime Minister, but also aimed at the Left parties accused of being an inadequate opposition.
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