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Beyond Citizen Kane (1993) is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and first broadcast on Channel 4.
It details the dominant position of the Rede Globo media group, the largest in Brazil, and discusses the group's influence, power, and political connections. Globo's president and founder Roberto Marinho was criticised and compared to the 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 manipulation of news to influence public opinion.
Rede Globo objected to the film's position and tried to buy Brazilian rights, but Hartog had already made agreements to give non-TV rights to political and cultural groups in Brazil. While it is often claimed in Brazil that exhibiting the documentary in Brazil was forbidden by the justice, John Ellis claims that there are no legal restrictions in place, but the documentary can't be broadcast on TV in Brazil since it contains large sections of footage owned by Globo.
However, copies sold in Britain reached Brazil in the 1990s and circulated widely there. In addition, since the Internet boom of the early 21st century, the film has been released on sharing networks and had hundreds of thousands of views, as measured on YouTube and Google Video.
Original Release
03/10/1993
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Leonel Brizola | Self |
| Chico Buarque | Self |
| Walter Clark | Self |
| Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | Self |
| Armando Falcão | Self |
| Romulo Furtado | Self |
| Dias Gomes | Self |
| Maria Rita Kehl | Self |
| Chris Kelly | Narrator |
| Antônio Carlos Magalhães | Self |
Directors
Writers
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Leonel Brizola | Self |
| Chico Buarque | Self |
| Walter Clark | Self |
| Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva | Self |
| Armando Falcão | Self |
| Romulo Furtado | Self |
| Dias Gomes | Self |
| Maria Rita Kehl | Self |
| Chris Kelly | Narrator |
| Antônio Carlos Magalhães | Self |
| Roberto Marinho | Self |
| Armando Nogueira | Self |
| Washington Olivetto | Self |
| Gabriel Priolli | Self |
| Milton Tavares | Self |
| Paulo Autran | Self |
| Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco | Self |
| Sérgio Chapelin | Self |
| King Charles III | Self |
| Francisco Cuoco | Self |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| John Ellis | Producer |
