The ad agency that sold Margaret Thatcher and imploded spectacularly. Buckle up, capitalism stans.
Featuring interviews with Sir John Hegarty, Lord Tim Bell and Robert E. Jacoby, The Real Saatchis: Masters of Illusion chronicles the rise and fall of Britain's largest advertising agency,
Direction
Oxley lets these monsters hang themselves with their own words.
Writing
The narrator's dry BBC skepticism is *chef's kiss*.
Director
Chris Oxley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Saatchi brothers founded their empire at ages 24 and 22 with zero capital—just pure hubris and a borrowed typewriter.
This 1999 doc dropped right as the dot-com bubble was rewriting adland again—making its eulogy for traditional agency power weirdly premature.
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