Beyond Citizen Kane

Name: Beyond Citizen Kane
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1993-09-01
Duration: 93 min

1h 33m·Documentary

Directed by Simon Hartog·1993

Rate

7.7/10 avg

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.

DirectorSimon HartogStudioLarge Door Ltd.

Actor	Role
Leonel BrizolaSelf	Self
Chico BuarqueSelf	Self
Walter ClarkSelf	Self
Dias GomesSelf	Self
Luiz Inácio Lula da SilvaSelf	Self
Armando NogueiraSelf	Self
AAntônio Carlos MagalhãesSelf	Self
RRoberto MarinhoSelf	Self
Washington OlivettoSelf	Self