Let's Make Money (2008)

Director:

Erwin Wagenhofer

Writer:

Erwin Wagenhofer (writer)

Release Date:

30 October 2008 (Germany)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

Let your money work !

Plot:

Most of us don't know where their money is. However, one thing is for certain, it's is not in the bank to which we entrusted it. The bank and our money is already a part of the cycle of the global money market. |

Plot Keywords:

Third World | Contraction In Title | Punctuation In Title | Exploitation | Neoliberalism

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Antonio Baena Perez	...	Himself
George Belton	...	Himself
John Christensen	...	Himself
Yves Delisle	...	Himself
Ramón Fernandéz Durán	...	Himself
Joseph James	...	Himself
Antonio Jinanez	...	Himself
Kalvilselven	...	Himself
Francis Kologo	...	Himself
Animata Kompaore	...	Herself
Mirko Kovats	...	Himself
Terry le Sueur	...	Himself
Dr. Mark Mobius	...	Himself
Mr. Nuridden	...	Himself
John Perkins	...	Himself
K. Sujatha Raaju	...	Herself
Dr. Werner Rügemer	...	Himself
Hermann Scheer	...	Himself
Anton Schneider	...	Himself
Dr. Gerhard Schwarz	...	Himself
Karafahan Tani	...	Herself
Miguel Angel Torres	...	Himself
Martin Walker	...	Himself

Runtime:

Argentina:110 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente) | Germany:110 min

Country:

Austria

Language:

German | Spanish | English | Tamil | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | Dolby Digital | Dolby Digital | Dolby Digital | Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:13 | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud)

Filming Locations:

Africa

Company:

Allegro Film

Goofs:

Factual errors: When John Christensen states "that currently 11.5 trillion Dollars of private wealth is held offshore", in the German subtitles this is translated as "11.5 Trillionen Dollar". This is way off: the (English) trillion is a million million, whereas a (German) Trillion is a billion billion.

Quotes:

[Dr. Mobius has been called 'investment guru' and 'father of emerging markets']
Dr. Mark Mobius: The best time to buy is when there is blood on the streets.

Opens eyes where you might prefer them closed

Release at a time of world wide financial crisis with banks stumbling around the globe is coincidence, but a good one.

Do you know what happens with your money? How banks use it to be able to pay the interest they advertised? To fulfill their investors' expectations? I did, partially, but certainly not the whole story.

Do we want to know it all? You can say as well: I like beef steaks, but do I want to get to know the cow and the whole process before it is on my plate? If you are not ignoring things and act like an ostrich, then you should be willing to ask this question.

The movie tells you the story through the voices of people on top and on bottom of a globalized market, blended in to a composition of pictures that mostly speak by themselves anyway. This is a movie where the slogan 'Let your money work for you' gets a literal meaning. But is it really working for 'you'?