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An Unauthorized Biopic Of Silvio Berlusconi, Already Stranger Than Fiction

Loro, directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Toni Servillo, is a movie about the TV tycoon turned Italian prime minister — and the sycophants who helped build his cult of personality.
Toni Servillo stars as Silvio Berlusconi in <em>Loro</em>, the biopic movie about the Italy's former prime minister.

During his four terms in office, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi redefined the norms of Italian society and created a global blueprint for political strongmen. A business tycoon who owned multiple TV channels, Berlusconi governed Italy like one of his media businesses, eventually facing multiple investigations, sex scandals and charges of corruption.

Filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino won the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2014 for , and the regrets of and the HBO series .

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