The Caiman

Original title: Il caimano

2006
1h 52m

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A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

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6.7/10

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Awards
- 22 wins & 27 nominations

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Trivia
As the movie was released just before the beginning of the 2006 Italian general election, the media and some politicians complained it could influence the voters' decision. In fact, the movie became one of the year's most successful movies in Italy, and 'Silvio Berlusconi' lost the election. Anyway, it seems to be hasty to claim this movie as a cause for the election's final results: some left wing people use to think that 'Il Caimano' gave to Berlusconi some decimal points in the election's stats.

Connections
Featured in Girlfriend in a Coma (2012)

Soundtracks
Dixit Dominus
Composed by George Frideric Handel (as Georg Friedrich Händel)

A movie on (or against) Berlusconi, the media tycoon which is presently also prime minister of Italy? This is the "leit motive" in these days, at two weeks distance from the general elections. And the movie was released just yesterday... Is the movie a political propaganda one? Nanni Moretti in an interview broadcast on the same date asserts that he had no intention to make politics. Maybe! Anyhow the scene of Berlusconi at the European Congress in Brussels when he shouted "kapò" to a German delegate and refused to excuse himself or the sequence at the Criminal Court of Milano during a process for mafia connections speak for themselves. Apart from politics, the movie is on the tradition of the Moretti ones, "Caro Diario" and "La Stanza del Figlio" in particular and it is worth to be seen.