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Mon 07 Jul 2006Home truths on the big screenSilvio Berlusconi's grip on Italian television meant that cinema and video became the outlet for those who criticised his government. The film-makers who dared to dissent talk to John Hooper.Among those interviewed for Sabina Guzzanti's "satirical documentary" Viva Zapatero! is Furio Colombo, a former editor of the Italian left-wing daily L'Unita. He recalls how his family kept bound editions of the newspaper from previous years. As a boy, he says, he used to leaf through the volumes from the years that saw the rise of fascism.