Venice, Italy - Leftwing Italian director Michele Placido lost his temper at the Venice Film Festival Wednesday when quizzed over why his film of the 1968 student revolts was part funded by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's media empire. Placido, during a press conference to present Il Grande Sogno - a semi-autobiographical homage to the leftist student revolts of 1968 - criticised Berlusconi's government for cutting funds to the performing arts.
But asked by a reporter from the German Press Agency
