Viva Zapatero! (2005)

Director:

Sabina Guzzanti

Writer:

Sabina Guzzanti (writer)

Release Date:

2005 (Italy)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot Keywords:

Satire | Censorship | Italy | Punctuation In Title | Exclamation Point In Title

Awards:

1 win & 2 nominations

Cast

Francesco Alberoni	...	Himself
Lucia Annunziata	...	Herself
Silvio Berlusconi	...	Himself (archive footage)
Enzo Biagi	...	Himself
Michele Bonatesta	...	Himself
Rory Bremner	...	Himself
Luciano Canfora	...	Himself
Davide Caparini	...	Himself
Flavio Cattaneo	...	Himself
Furio Colombo	...	Himself
Ferruccio De Bortoli	...	Himself
Bill Emmott	...	Himself
Dario Fo	...	Himself
Claudio Fracassi	...	Himself
Bruno Gaccio	...	Himself
Maurizio Gasparri	...	Himself
Beppe Giulietti	...	Himself
Beppe Grillo	...	Himself
Udo Gumpel	...	Himself
Sabina Guzzanti	...	Herself, Silvio Berlusconi, others...
Roberto Herlitzka	...	Himself
Eric Jozsef	...	Himself
Giorgio Lainati	...	Himself
Daniele Luttazzi	...	Himself
Neri Marcorè	...	Himself / Maurizio Gasparri (archive footage)
Ezio Mauro	...	Himself
Fabrizio Morri	...	Himself
Marcelle Padovani	...	Herself
Angelo Maria Petroni	...	Himself
Claudio Petruccioli	...	Himself
Alfredo Pieroni	...	Himself
Antonio Polito	...	Himself
David Riondino	...	Himself
Paolo Rossi	...	Himself
Andrea Salerno	...	Himself
Michele Santoro	...	Himself
Alexander Stille	...	Himself
Marco Travaglio	...	Himself
Elio Veltri	...	Himself
Marcello Veneziani	...	Himself
Bruno Vespa	...	Himself (archive footage)
Karl Zero	...	Himself

Runtime:

Italy:80 min

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian | English | French | Dutch

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Italy:T | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Netherlands:MG6 | Finland:K-3 | UK:15

Company:

Lucky Red

Trivia:

At the 62nd Venice Film Festival, the movie received a 20-minute standing ovation.

Quotes:

Herself, Silvio Berlusconi, others...: [Last Lines] I did what I had to do, and my reward was I got to see the crowd. I'm not the only witness. All those people are witnesses too, and so are you.

Movie Connections:

Edited from "RaiOt" (2003)

Sabina Guzzanti vs The Indifference

What a terrifyingly truthful document. That's what we are and, probably, what we'll always be. Us Italians. What a shame that the protests, usually, take place at a bar but what it comes to, at the end,is just a shrugging of shoulders followed by a "What Can I Do About It?" We, Italians, allow this things to happen because we don't care enough about anything. We have the leaders that we deserve and this is true for the rest of the world as well but look at what we deserve! What a shame, what a shame, what a shame! "Viva Zapatero" released in theaters seemed a step in the right direction but how many people have actually seen it? The scenes with a massive crowd assisting to the show after the banning from RAI brought tears to my eyes and a glimmer of hope creeped up into my system, just a glimmer that has long gone and disappeared. What a shame, what a shame, what a shame!