Introduction
The early seventies, years of authentic ferment, chaotic projects and short-lived utopias, saw
the birth of private TV, what we now call “commercial TV”.
Synopsis
But it was certainly not with this vocation that, back in 1971, Peppo Sacchi's legendary TeleBiella A21 TV saw the light, the first private Italian cable broadcaster.
BEFORE BERLUSCONI, with the help of valuable and authoritative testimonies and unpublished material
from the archive, tells its story.
Film info
Subject: Beppe Anderi, Filippo Loro
Photography: Ivo Bonato
Editing: Maurizio Arneodo for Zabum Uno Scrl, Cuneo
Testimonials: Peppo Sacchi (creator and founder of TeleBiella A21 TV)
Aldo Grasso (university professor, critic and TV historian)
Gianfranco Bettetini (director and university professor)
Bruno Gambarotta (author and radio and television host)
Ugo Zatterin (RAI journalist)
Bruno Lauzi (singer-songwriter)
Fausto Banino (face and voice of TeleBiella)
Ivana Ramella (journalist, actress, first announcer of TeleBiella)
Claudio Regis (Telecommunications Consultant)
Franco Borri Brunetto (mayor of Biella in the early 1970s)
Giorgio Frignani (Former President of the Biella Industrial Union)
Music: excerpts from “July, August, September (Black)” (Area, Cramps 1973,
(courtesy of the authors)
Archive footage: courtesy of Giuseppe Sacchi, director of
TeleBiella A21 TV
Filmed between June and July 1997
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Festival
Turin Film Festival – the selection of Streeen
Lucus a lucendo
Uppercut Sonata
Now I know Snow
Where everything is
The "cool" of the regime
I would do it again tomorrow
Maximum respect
Reflections on the big toe
Two or three things
Timeless
I was making nugatine
Before Berlusconi
The fighter
The World of Luigi Ghirri
Erri De Luca after Genoa
Zone 18 Limon, Guatemala
Octavio Mario Mai
Requiem
Miss Effe
Rata neće biti (There will be no war)
We are not like James Bond
Sanperè
Without asking permission
The body of the duce
Something About Us
ANAPESON
Walking with Red Rhino
Here
Gipo, the gypsy of Barriera
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