Girlfriend in a Coma (2012)

6.9/10 99 min Documentary History

Overview

Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country has suffered during the last two decades, treating the decline as a warning of what might happen elsewhere in the West. The decline has occurred amid a collapse of moral values and the victory of “Mala Italia” over “Buona Italia”. It has been lauded as being ground-breaking in its creative combination of animation, interviews and hard facts, and has caused fierce controversy in Italy.

Cast

Silvio Berlusconi

Self (archive footage)

Emma Bonino

Self

Sylvia De Fanti

Self

Livia Giuggioli

Self

John Elkann

Self

Giampiero Judica

Self

Mario Monti

Self

Nanni Moretti

Self

Alessandro Riceci

Self

Toni Servillo

Self

Marco Travaglio

Self

Marcello Mastroianni

Augusto Rusconi (archive footage) (uncredited)

Anna Magnani

Maddalena Cecconi (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sophia Loren

Mara (archive footage) (uncredited)

Hugh Grant

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Serena Dandini

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

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