Beyond Citizen Kane [SEP] director
Beyond Citizen Kane
Beyond Citizen Kane is a 1993 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
never agreed with".
In interviews made for the British documentary film "Beyond Citizen Kane" (1993), the Minister of Justice Armando Falcão (1974-1979) confirmed that "Roberto Marinho never gave me any problems. When I was the minister in charge of censorship and he was the director of the TV Globo network, Radio Globo, Radio Mundial and Radio Eldorado, he never gave me any trouble." The military president Médici (1969-1974) even claimed in an interview, about "Jornal