Viva Zapatero! (2005)

For Posterity: That Freedom we had once ...we took back by ourselves.

Viva Zapatero! is a 2005 documentary by Sabina Guzzanti telling her side of the story regarding the conflict with Silvio Berlusconi over a late-night TV political satire show broadcast on RAI-3. The show, RAIot (a play on the name of the Italian state public TV: RAI, and the English word riot), lampooned prime minister Berlusconi. Since it wasn't considered a satirical show, but a political one, it was cancelled after the first episode.

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Rory Bremner

Tony Blair / Self

Sabina Guzzanti

Self / Silvio Berlusconi / Lucia Annunziata

Dario Fo

Self

Enzo Biagi

Self

Silvio Berlusconi

Self (archive footage)

Michele Santoro

Self

Daniele Luttazzi

Self

Marco Travaglio

Self

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Ferdinando Adornato

Self (archive footage)

Vauro Senesi

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

A

Antonio Socci

Self (archive footage)

G

Giovanni Masotti

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

Bruno Vespa

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

Massimo D'Alema

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

Serena Dandini

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

Francesco Rutelli

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

Romano Prodi

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

Piero Fassino

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

F

Fabrizio Morri

Self

Ignazio La Russa

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

Umberto Bossi

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

M

Maurizio Gasparri

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

P

Paolo Ruffini

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

V

Valerio Terenzio

Self

Andrea Salerno

Self

Neri Marcorè

Maurizio Gasparri (archive footage)(uncredited)

F

Flavio Cattaneo

Self

Francesco Alberoni

Self

A

Angelo Maria Petroni

Self

M

Marcello Veneziani

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

L

Lucia Annunziata

Self

V

Vittorio Pessina

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

G

Giuseppe Giulietti

Self

C

Claudio Petruccioli

Self

Luciano Canfora

Self

Karl Zéro

Self

Marcella Padovani

Self

Bruno Gaccio

Self

Paul Groot

Jan Peter Balkenende (archive footage)(uncredited)

Sanne Wallis de Vries

Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (archive footage)

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Udo Gumpel

Self

Paolo Rossi

Self

Ezio Mauro

Self

A

Antonio Polito

Self

D

Davide Caparini

Self

Bill Emmott

Self

Beppe Grillo

Self (archive footage)

F

Francesca Schianchi

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

M

Mariano Apicella

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

Alexander Stille

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

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Giorgio Lainati

Self

M

Michele Bonatesta

Self

Furio Colombo

Self

C

Cladio Fracassi

Self

Ferruccio De Bortoli

Self

Alfredo Pieroni

Self (archive footage)

Roberto Natale

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

Gad Lerner

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

Fabio Fazio

Self (archive footage)(uncredited)

Eric Jozsef

Self

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