Bankrupt in his professional and personal life, Z-grade movie producer Bruno Bonomo – responsible for offerings such as Moccasin Assassins and Maciste Versus Freud – is finding it impossible to raise the money for his latest project, The Return of Christopher Columbus. Entangled in debts and his own weaknesses, struggling with a capsizing marriage and his wayward kids, Bruno is going under. By chance, he meets a young director Teresa who gives him her script, The Caiman. At first, he takes it for a half-hearted thriller but a more careful reading reveals a film about Berlusconi. He decides to do it; he will set up the production, find the lead actor, sort out the financing, all the while trying to pick up the pieces of his broken relationship. Yet in the midst of all this, a new spirit is awakened in Bruno Bonomo and washed up as he seems, he will find within himself the energy to pursue the project to its end. Nanni Moretti’s Palme d’Or-nominated political satire anticipated the 2013 sentence of the well-known Italian media-mogul and four-time prime minister. Many people believe the movie influenced the 2006 Italian general election.

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