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Italy under Berlusconi: The silencing of Sabina
When an Italian satirist's television show was axed under pressure from the Prime Minister, she hit back with a critically acclaimed Michael Moore-style documentary. Now it's about to go on general release. Peter Popham reports from Rome on the woman who's become the scourge of Berlusconi
Published: 15 September 2005

Sabina Guzzanti has learnt to her cost that you can be too good at your job. As a one-woman spitting image, she had the whole country laughing. A grey wig here and a severe tie there transformed her into former left-wing prime minister Massimo D'Alema; then a few cushions, stuffed up her shirt, swung her to the right for a riotous take on the President. But he wasn't amused and she was silenced.

Now it seems she may even be good enough to get even.

After two years away from the little screen, Italy's favourite comedienne is back on the big one - reinvented as a European Michael Moore. Her scorching debut documentary, Viva Zapatero!, had the Venice film festival on its feet cheering, and gave her the forum to tell the real story of how she was muzzled.

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