A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006) (V)

Directors:

Basil Gelpke
Raymond McCormack
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Writers:

Basil Gelpke
Raymond McCormack

Release Date:

March 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | War

Tagline:

The Oil Crash

Plot:

A theatrical documentary on the planet's dwindling oil resources.

Plot Keywords:

Oil | Baku | Scientist | Peak Oil | Energy Crisis

Awards:

5 wins

Cast

Wade Adams	...	Himself - Researcher in Nanotechnology
Abdul Samad Al-Awadi	...	Himself - Oil Consultant (as Abdul Samad al-Awadi)
Fadhil J. Al-Chalabi	...	Himself - Former OPEC Executive Secretary-General (as Fadhil al-Chalabi)
Roscoe Bartlett	...	Himself - US Congressman
Robert Bottome	...	Himself - Economist, Caracas
Colin J. Campbell	...	Himself - Oil Geologist
Marcello Colitti	...	Himself - Former Chief Executive of ENI S.p.A.
Alberto Quirós Corradi	...	Himself - President of Allied Consulting, Caracas
Mir-Babajev Mir-Jusiv Fazilogli	...	Himself - Oil Historian
Daniele Ganser	...	Himself - Historian
David L. Goodstein	...	Himself - Professor of Physics and Applied Physics (as Dr. David L. Goodstein Ph.D.)
Richard Heinberg	...	Himself
Terry Lynn Karl	...	Herself - Professor of Political Science
Franklin M. Orr Jr.	...	Himself - Professor
Sherry Phillips	...	Herself - Mayor of McCamey, Texas
Matthew David Savinar	...	Himself - Attorney
Matthew Simmons	...	Himself - Energy Adviser to US President George W. Bush
Alfred M. Spormann	...	Himself - Professor of Environmental Microbiology
Manouchehr Takin	...	Himself - Senior Petroleum Analyst
Louis Woodward	...	Himself - Oil Entrepreneur
Gary Yanibelli	...	Himself - Hummer Car Salesman

Directed by
Basil Gelpke
Raymond McCormack
Reto Caduff		(co-director)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Basil Gelpke
Raymond McCormack

Produced by
Basil Gelpke	....	executive producer
Raymond McCormack	....	producer

Original Music by
Philip Glass
Daniel Schnyder

Cinematography by
Frank Messmer
Daniel Pfisterer

Film Editing by
Georgia Wyss

Production Design by
Melinda Gelpke

Sound Department
Daniel Faesch	....	sound editor
Robert Porter	....	sound editor

Camera and Electrical Department
Richard Grell	....	director of photography: additional photography
Bradley Stonesifer	....	assistant camera

Editorial Department
Florian Nussbaumer	....	assistant editor
Roger Sommer	....	colorist

Other crew
Linda Litowsky	....	publicist
Dana O'Keefe	....	sales agent

Production Companies

• Lava Productions

Distributors

• Columbus Film (2007) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Antidote Films (2006) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Antidote Films (2006) (Australia) (DVD)
• Canvas (2007) (Belgium) (TV) (first national airing)
• Docurama (2006) (USA) (all media)
• Dogwoof Pictures (2007) (UK) (all media)
• Telepool (2007) (worldwide) (all media)
• Yleisradio (YLE) (2008) (Finland) (TV)

Other Companies

• Cinetic Media  sales

Also Known As:

"A Crude Awakening" - USA (short title)
"OilCrash" - International (English title) (short title)

Runtime:

84 min | 85 min (approx)

Country:

Switzerland | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | UK:PG | Australia:G | New Zealand:G

Filming Locations:

Baku, Azerbaijan

Company:

Lava Productions

Crude Awakening achieves it's goal

This is an excellent documentary/expose. Some of the above comments mentioned that it was not thorough enough exploring the alternatives.

I disagree to that being a flaw. I did not feel alt energy was the films objective. It was merely touched on as not being explored as much as it should be at this stage in our "Carbon-based man" evolution.

Alternative solutions is another extensive subject of many other documentaries and TV shows or another subject matter beyond the point presented here.

And this point is long overdue to be put to the public, it was presented engagingly well in this film.

The earlier reference to "3 Days of the Condor" is true (one of my old favs) and it proves that we were aware of the problem way back then, yet we continue to ignore it in the political main stage.