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Il caimano ("The Caiman") is an Italian comedy-drama movie released in 2006, directed by Nanni Moretti and featuring Silvio Orlando and Margherita Buy.
Focusing on Silvio Berlusconi's vicissitudes, it was released just before the beginning of the Italian general election, 2006, in which Berlusconi lost. It has been one of the most successful films of 2006 in Italy.
Plot
The movie is the story of a cockeyed film producer, Bruno Bonomo (Silvio Orlando) who did some trash movies with his wife Paola (Margherita Buy) in the 1970s. He decides to shoot a film about Silvio Berlusconi, namely Il Caimano ("The Caiman").
The production of the film is rife with problems, including the defection of the main actor (Michele Placido), but the plot of Il caimano also deals with the domestic issues between Bonomo and Paola until their final separation.
Despite growing evidence that his film will never be completed, Bonomo decides to shoot the last scene, which shows the political nucleus behind the film: in it, Silvio Berlusconi (played by Nanni Moretti himself) enters the tribunal room to hear the ruling against him (see Legal investigations of Berlusconi), which sentences him to seven years of jail. Notwithstanding the sentence, Berlusconi/Moretti exit the tribunal while a crowd throws debris at the judges, including a Molotov cocktail.
The whole, crude scene is not only an allusion to Berlusconi's judiciary controversies, but also to his powerful ability to communicate, which (in Moretti's view) led Italian people to support him anyway despite his troublesome past.
Comments
In Moretti's words, Il caimano is not only a political film. He stated that the film deals mainly with the cultural vices of Italian people, and also the story about the dissolution of a common family.
Trivia
Numerous Italian film makers play minor parts in the film. These include Giuliano Montaldo, Carlo Mazzacurati, Tatti Sanguinetti, and Antonello Grimaldi.
External links
2006 films | Italian films | Films directed by Nanni Moretti
"Il caimano (film)"