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Slap the Monster on Page One is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Marco Bellocchio with Gian Maria Volonté
Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
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Add to a movie listSbatti il mostro in prima pagina (Italian: "Slap the Monster on Page One") is a 1972 Italian drama film directed by Marco Bellocchio.
It depicts the daily life of a fictitious Italian daily newspaper Il Giornale (The Newspaper). The newspaper caters to a conservative, quasi-fascist, borgeouis public and its chief-editor Bizanti tries in all manners to give a right-wing slant even to the most trivial news items, while at the same time edulcorating and desensitizing the thornier issues, (such as unemployment, police brutality and so on). The whole editorial staff is thrown in a tantrum when a young girl is found raped and killed, going as far as soliciting death penalty nostalgias (capital punishment has been abolished in Italy since the fall of Fascism) and to actually derail the investigation leading the police to a false culprit: a young left-wing student which becomes the "ideal" scapegoat for the newspaper's prejudiced readership. The movie, a searing j'accuse on the perils of press manipulation, closes with no happy ending in sight, with the public opinion totally mesmerized by Bizanti and his cronies for the satisfaction of their backers and financers.
Two years after the movie's distribution a center-right newspaper called Il Giornale was actually started in Italy by Indro Montanelli.
Synopsis
Dans un contexte politique particulièrement explosif, le journal conservateur milanais "Il Giornale" affiche envers et contre tout son soutien à la classe patronale. Se préparant à des élections qui s'annoncent houleuses, la rédaction, menée par le peu scrupuleux Bizanti, met d'ailleurs tout en œuvre pour orienter l'opinion publique, profitant d'une sombre affaire de crime sexuel pour l'émouvoir. Le sinistre fait divers est ainsi monté en épingle et Mario Boni, jeune militant communiste soupçonné du meurtre, est très vite désigné comme coupable en première page afin de mieux discréditer les divers courants gauchistes. Intrigué par de criantes anomalies dans la façon dont est menée l'enquête, le jeune reporter Roveda, d'abord docile, finit par démonter la vaste machination médiatique dans laquelle se sont engagés ses employeurs et découvre le véritable coupable.Actors
Gian Maria Volonté
(Bizanti)
Laura Betti
(Rita Zigai)
Jean Rougeul
(Direttore de 'Il Giornale')
John Steiner
(Ing. Montelli)
Michel Bardinet
(Vanzina)
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