Bye, Bye Berlusconi! (2006)
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Cast
Maurizio Antonini, Lucia Chiarla, Pietro Bontempo
A satirical film-within-a-film follows a crew making a politically charged movie alongside the kidnapping and trial of a corrupt media tycoon.
The story
Two interwoven storylines follow a troubled film crew and Micky Laus, a powerful but dishonest watermelon businessman who owns the TeleAnguria broadcaster and leads the political party Forza Topolonia. The crew faces repeated police searches, accidents and a mysterious explosion while worrying about the consequences of its movie. In the parallel story, Laus’s media empire features showgirls, quiz shows and lengthy speeches, and his amateur football team is AC Topolonia. The conflict escalates when the tycoon is kidnapped and brought before a people’s prison for trial; the verdict is to be decided by people on the web.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The film unfolds through two stories that intertwine throughout, right up to the finale. On one side is the story of the crew making the film, tormented by the possible consequences the movie could have and beset by numerous difficulties, such as repeated police searches, all kinds of accidents and even a mysterious explosion. On the other are the events in the life of Micky Laus (played by Maurizio Antonini, Berlusconi’s lookalike; Topolino in the Italian version), an important but dishonest watermelon businessman who owns TeleAnguria, a broadcaster whose schedule is clogged with scantily clad showgirls, quiz shows with prizes and the protagonist’s delirious oratorical marathons (a not-too-subtle reference to the Mediaset giant). The football team he presides over is the ramshackle amateur side AC Topolonia (a clear reference to the ). He is also the leader of Forza Topolonia (a parody of Forza Italia). The tycoon is kidnapped and his bodyguards are killed. His kidnappers put him on trial in the people’s prison. The verdict will come from the people of the web, but Laus will not go to prison, through a series of hair-raising reversals.
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