Il film “There’s Tomorrow Too” tells the story of Ennius Doristhe founder of Mediolanum Bank who shook world finance by reimbursing customers out of his own pocket after the crash Lehman Brothers. But how much truth is there in the film with Massimo Ghini? Between the 120 million euro personal sacrifice, the pact of steel with Silvio Berlusconi and humble origins as a door-to-door salesman, the portrait emerges of a man who transformed a billion-dollar empire into an ethical mission.
The film about Ennio Doris
The airing on Canale 5 on 29 December of the biopic “Ennio Doris – There’s also tomorrow” (taken from the book of the same name written by the person concerned) turns the spotlight back on one of the most discussed figures of Italian capitalism.
The film revolves around an event that is incredible for the banking world: the decision to reimburse savers overwhelmed by the failure of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
Lucrezia Lante della Rovere, the director Giacomo Campiotti and Massimo Ghini during the presentation of the film on Ennio Doris
If on the screen the gesture is depicted as a heroic moral resolution taken in front of the family in the living room at home, historical reality gives us a financial operation of unprecedented engineering complexity, which saw Doris and Fininvest of Berlusconi to shell out a monstrous sum to save the brand’s reputation.
The book on Ennio Doris can be purchased on Amazon
What happened after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers
The pivot of the cinematic narrative is the key scene Midnight Palacewhere Doris announces that the outlay will not burden the minority shareholders or the bank’s balance sheets.
In reality, the company documents of 22 October 2008 confirm the substance of the gesture, but with less poetic and more rigorous technical details.
The founder and the Berlusconi Group put a package on the table 120 million euros through the waiver of dividends and a subordinated loan.
It is the practical translation of the famous slogan “the bank built around you”: a marketing and ethical operation so powerful that it marked a “before” and an “after” in the history of credit in Italy.
The relationship with Berlusconi
But the film doesn’t stop at the financial crisis. Dig into the roots of a man born in Bobbinin the Padua area, son of a livestock broker, who starting from an accounting diploma has managed to build a fortune estimated by Forbes in 3.6 billion dollars.
The film faithfully retraces the dazzling encounter of the 80s with Silvio Berlusconia partnership that led to the birth of Programma Italia and then of Banca Mediolanum.
The one between Doris and the Cavaliere was not just a business partnership, but a deep bond that Berlusconi himself defined as part of his “friendship trinity”, together with Gianni Letta e Fedele Confalonieri.
The film does not hide the fragility of recent years, marked by fight against a serious form of nephritisuntil his passing in Milan on November 24, 2021.
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