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 Vaud) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva)

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.

Business, never personal

Frankly, I wasn't too hot about Wagenhofer's previous documentary "We Feed The World", which dealt with the food industry. Now, he's tackling the much harder to "photograph" financial system, and he pins it right down. Wagenhofer documents some egregious examples of the global financial system going haywire, and he nails down the right cases. Those gargantuan, deserted Spanish golf course castles will stay in your mind. So will the sheer, pharaonean poverty of cotton pickers and granite maimers (for a better word) in Burkina Faso.

Film is always thick on emotion, thin on information. This documentary offers a few mental stepping stones. Tomorrow I'm going to look up some of the points mentioned in this film. That's about all you can ask from a good documentary.