Beyond Citizen Kane

Simon Hartog
1993-09-01


7.7
93 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Leonel Brizola Self Unowned
Chico Buarque Self Unowned
Walter Clark Self Unowned
Dias Gomes Self Unowned
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Self Unowned
Armando Nogueira Self Unowned
Antônio Carlos Magalhães Self Unowned
Roberto Marinho Self Unowned
Washington Olivetto Self Unowned