Antonio Catania, Giuliano Montaldo, Jasmine Trinca

Bankrupt in his professional and personal life, movie producer Bruno Bonomo is finding it impossible to finance his latest project, "The Return of Christopher Columbus." Entangled in debts and his own...( read more  read more... ) weaknesses, struggling with a capsizing marriage and his wayward kids, Bruno is going under. By chance, he meets a young director who gives him her script, "The Caiman." At first Bruno takes it for a half-hearted thriller. Later, a more careful reading reveals it is a film about the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. No longer can he stand back. He must set up the production. Yet in the midst of endless setbacks and problems, a new spirit awakens in Bruno, and with it, the assertion of his dignity. Washed up as he seems, he finds within himself the desire to see through to the end of the project, which arrived by chance but which now, he sees as a matter of life and death.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 52 min.

Directed by: Nanni Moretti

Release Date: January 1, 2006

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  • March 12, 2008
    A comparison between two systems, the disastrous life of a film producer, and the calamitous course of a country ruled by a hypocrite and corrupt villain (which is not fiction at all, not only in italy).
    A satire about power and the odyssey of making a movie about it. funny and w...( read more)ith charming performances, nevertheless, some parts of the screenplay and the character played by Jasmine Trinca are a bit weak, and I also think the life of the producer, superbly played by Silvio Orlando, was far more interesting than the political aspects that Nanni Moretti was anxious to denounce, as he did right at the end. but that would be another movie, of course.
  • January 1, 2008
    Who said political movies weren't fun? Il Caimano is a lyrical vision of modern politics (not only in Italy). Brilliantly interpreted by fantastic actors. The imagination of the director seems endless.
  • November 23, 2009
    Quando questo film si sviluppa senza Moretti èun film quasi come tanti altri. Ma il cinema morettiano è Moretto-centrico e il Nanni Moretti è l'autore italiano che meglio di tutti ha saputo rappresentare con i propri film la propria personalità e il proprio pensiero. Così, quando...( read more) negli ultimi dieci minuti Nanni si riappropria del film impersonando in maniera anomola un Berlusconi che viene processato come un martire dalla magistratura, grazie anche all montaggio e alle luci il film subisce un climax mozzafiato. Prima di quei dieci minuti, un cast d'eccezione con personaggi bizzarri tra i quali spicca Silvio Orlando che interpreta il regista-produttore Bruno. Un'opera sicuramente anti-berlusconi ma non solo, come alcuni spettatori un po' superficiali hanno creduto.
  • December 30, 2008
    The.Caiman.DVDRip.XviD-iAPULA
  • December 15, 2008
    not thanks not my thing
  • February 25, 2008
    un ritratto disincantato e amaro (ma comunque speranzoso) dell'Italia di oggi
  • December 9, 2007
    I usually don't like Nanni Moretti even if I share his political ideas! This movie is however nice, and I love the fake movie "trailers"!
  • October 17, 2007
    Un film qui, après visionnement, me semble extraordinairement formidable, un film qui s'aventure dangereusement dans la sphère politique italienne actuelle, un film qui ose par des suppositions qu'il avance quant à la supposée intégrité du premier ministre actuel Silvio Berluscon...( read more)i... Wow. Le problème, c'est que je n'ai pas le bagage pour en comprendre le contenu.

    Résultat, j'ai passé la majorité du film à être fasciné, mais incapable de tirer un peu d'intérêt des allégations politiques que Moretti porte envers son pays. La fin est d'ailleurs formidable puisque, contrairement au reste du film, elle sort du présent pour s'aventurer dans l'avenir, ce qui risque de ne pas plaire aux adeptes de Berlusconi.

    Bravo Moretti pour ce film international trop hermétique. Et je suis sincère.
  • September 23, 2007
    Brilliant and funny as his other film and very political too! Chapeau!
  • July 30, 2007
    Humor ácido, com uma crítica à toda uma nação - italiana, no caso - e que também não deixa de ser uma homenagem aos loucos que resolvem fazer cinema!

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