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Beyond Citizen Kane

1993 1 hour 33 minutes
74/100

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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

1st September 1993

32 years ago

Runtime

1 hour 33 minutes

Finishes at 5:51am

Ratings and awards

  • IMDB Logo

    8.3/10

  • TMDb Logo

    70%

  • Trakt Logo

    70%

  • FilmFlow Logo

    74%

Directed by

Simon Hartog

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Written by

Simon Hartog

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