Beyond Citizen Kane


Beyond Citizen Kane 1993 is a British documentary film directed by Simon Hartog, produced by John Ellis, and first broadcast on Channel 4.

The documentary tracks Globos involvement with and support of the military dictatorship its illegal partnership of the 1960s with the American group Time Warner at the time TimeLife Marinhos political manoeuvrings which included airing on Jornal Nacional, the networks prime time news program, highlights of a 1989 presidential debate edited in a way as to favour Fernando Collor de Mello and a controversial deal involving shares of NEC Corporation and government contracts. It features interviews withpeople, including noted Brazilian politicians and cultural figures, such as politicians Leonel Brizola and Antonio Carlos Magalhes, singersongwriter Chico Buarque, former Justice Minister Armando Falco, politician Luiz Incio Lula da Silva, who later was elected as president and former employees Walter Clark and Armando Nogueira.The title refers to the 1941 American film, Citizen Kane, whose fictional newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane was created by the director and actor Orson Welles. He was believed to have been based on the American publisher William Randolph Hearst, noted for creating yellow journalism and exploiting the press. The 1993 British documentary criticised Globos president and founder Roberto Marinho for his close ties to the military dictatorship and suggestively compared him to the Kane figure for manipulation of news. ........

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