
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi ( born 29 September 1936) is an Italian politician, the current Prime Minister of Italy, as well as an entrepreneur. He is also known under the nickname Il Cavaliere (literally, The Knight), due to the knighthood Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977.
He is the second longest-serving Prime Minister of Italy, after Benito Mussolini. He held this position on three separate occasions: from 1994 to 1995, from 2001 to 2006 and currently since 2008. Technically, he has been sworn in four times because after a cabinet reshuffle, as happened with Berlusconi in 2005, the new ministry is sworn in and subjected to a vote of confidence. He is the leader of the People of Freedom political movement, a centre-right party he founded in 2009. As of November 2009, he is the longest-serving current leader of a G8 country. As of 2011, Forbes magazine has ranked him as the 118th richest man in the world with a net worth of US$7.8 billion. His political rise was rapid and surrounded by controversy. He was elected as a Member of Parliament for the first time and appointed as Prime Minister following the March 1994 parliamentary elections, when Forza Italia gained a relative majority a mere three months after having been officially launched. However, his cabinet collapsed after seven months, due to internal disagreements in his coalition. In the April 1996 snap parliamentary elections, he ran for Prime Minister again but was defeated by centre-left candidate Romano Prodi. In the May 2001 parliamentary elections, he was again the centre-right candidate for Prime Minister and won against the centre-left candidate Francesco Rutelli. He then formed his second and third cabinets, until 2006.
He was leader of the centre-right coalition in the April 2006 parliamentary elections, which he lost by a very narrow margin, his opponent again being Romano Prodi. He was re-elected in the parliamentary elections of April 2008 following the collapse, on 24 January 2008, of Romano Prodi's government and sworn in as prime minister on 8 May 2008 (see also 2008 Italian political crisis).
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.941 |
Birthday | 1936-09-29 |
Place of Birth | Milan, Italy |
Also Known As | Il Cavaliere, |

2009

Videocracy
6.419/43
In a country where bella figura is a national pastime, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is the maestro of media manipulation. Having risen to politica...
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Videocracy

2010

Draquila: Italy Trembles
7.1/18
A documentary in opposition to the government of Silvio Berlusconi.
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Draquila: Italy Trembles

2003

Citizen Berlusconi
6.9/7
All the games and behind-the-scenes of Silvio Berlusconi's power, including politics, media and soccer. Citizen Berlusconi is the original version of...
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Citizen Berlusconi

2014

Berlusconi, le roi Silvio
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Berlusconi, le roi Silvio

2011

Silvio Forever
6.2/30
Lawsuit-proof satirical "unauthorized biography" of Silvio Berlusconi told using only words spoken by the man himself in interviews, rallies, or other...
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Silvio Forever

2019

Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be
7.6/50
Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 2017. Twenty-five years after the murders of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone, on May 23, 1992, and Paolo Borsellino, on Jul...
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Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be

2012

Girlfriend in a Coma
6.8/19
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 h...
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Girlfriend in a Coma

2017

Arrangiarsi: Pizza... and the Art of Living
0/0
When the director's life falls apart, he moves into a 1985 VW van, gets back to his Neapolitan roots, and discovers arrangiarsi, making something from...
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Arrangiarsi: Pizza... and the Art of Living

2006

Quando c'era Silvio - Storia del periodo berlusconiano
5.7/3
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Quando c'era Silvio - Storia del periodo berlusconiano

2022

Marco inedito: Dagli ultimi 100 giorni di Pannella
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The last days of Marco Pannella’s life - indomitable and disruptive protagonist over 60 years of Italian political life - shown through never before s...
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Marco inedito: Dagli ultimi 100 giorni di Pannella

2017

Tutti a casa - Power to the People?
5.7/3
In many Western countries, trust between the people and conventional political parties is at a low point while populist movements are on the rise. In...
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2011

Looking for Milano
6.5/2
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Looking for Milano

2024

Berlusconis Aufstieg
8/2
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Berlusconis Aufstieg

2024

Speciale Atlantide: Andrea Purgatori, Borsellino e le stragi
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Speciale Atlantide: Andrea Purgatori, Borsellino e le stragi

2016

My Way: The Rise and Fall of Silvio Berlusconi
6.6/38
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi opens up about his life, including his sex scandals, corruption trials, and friendship with Putin.
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My Way: The Rise and Fall of Silvio Berlusconi

2005

Viva Zapatero!
6.816/19
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...
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Viva Zapatero!

2016

Pornography
4.3/3
Everything you always wanted to know about pornography (but were afraid to ask).
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Pornography

2009

What Do You Know About Me
7/2
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, t...
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What Do You Know About Me

2025

Gaddafi in Rome: Anatomy of a Friendship
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Alessandra Ferrini examines a photograph from an official visit by Gaddafi to Italy during the Berlusconi era. The film delves into the connections be...
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