Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it.

Director Nanni Moretti is both a cinephile who eagerly comments on the state of cinema, and a virulent detractor of Silvio Berlusconi’s politics. These two facets dizzyingly merge with The Caiman, a self-reflective and mischievous comedy about the making of a satirical comedy about the Caiman…