Beyond Citizen Kane

Name: Beyond Citizen Kane
Director: Simon Hartog
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1993-09-01
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Leonel Brizola, Chico Buarque, Walter Clark, Dias Gomes, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

HDIMDB: 7.7

Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a documentary directed by Simon Hartog rated 7.7/10.

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.

Released: 1993-09-01

Duration: 1h 33m

Genre: Documentary

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Simon Hartog

Writer: Simon Hartog

Cast: Leonel Brizola, Chico Buarque, Walter Clark, Dias Gomes

Production: Large Door Ltd., Channel 4 Television