Le Grand retournement (2013)
Directed by Gérard Mordillat

Comedy / Drama

Film Synopsis

Stock markets are in freefall, the banks are teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, the economy is dying...  In a panic, the bankers send out an urgent S.O.S. to the State and, with remarkable haste, the State steps in to save them.  It is the ordinary working man and woman who will have to pick up the bill, to save the system that the banks have ruined by their greed and recklessness.  And so it is that the poor stay poor and the rich get richer.  'Twas ever thus...
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Film Credits

  • Director: Gérard Mordillat
  • Script: Gérard Mordillat, Frédéric Lordon (story)
  • Cinematographer: François Catonné
  • Music: Elliott Covrigaru
  • Cast: Jacques Weber (Le banquier Weber), François Morel (Le premier conseiller), Edouard Baer (Le trader), Franck de la Personne (Le banquier Franck), Jacques Pater (Le banquier Pater), Élie Triffault (Le président), Antoine Bourseiller (Le banquier), Jean-Damien Barbin (Le banquier Barbin), Patrick Mille (Le nouveau deuxième conseiller), Thibault de Montalembert (Le premier ministre), Alain Pralon (Le gouverneur de la banque centrale), Benjamin Wangermee (Le deuxième conseiller), Christine Murillo (La fondée de pouvoir), Odile Conseil (La grande journaliste)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 77 min

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