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Cleveland Versus Wall Street

Cleveland contre Wall Street

Switzerland / France, May 2010
FILM, Documentary, 105 min.

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directed by
Jean-Stéphane Bron
Written by
Jean-Stéphane Bron
Status
In distribution

On January 11th, 2008, hired by the City of Cleveland, lawyer Josh Cohen and his team filed a lawsuit against 21 banks, which they held accountable for the wave of foreclosures that had left their city in ruins. Since then, the bankers on Wall Street have been fighting by with all available means to avoid going to court… The film is the story of that trial. A film about a trial that may never be held but in which the facts, the participants and their testimonies are all real: the judge, lawyers, witnesses, even the members of the jury – asked to give their verdict – play their own roles. Step by step, one witness after another, the film takes apart, from a plain, human perspective, the mechanisms of subprime mortgage loans, a system that sent the world economy reeling. A trial for the sake of example, a universal fable about capitalism.

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World Premiere
May 2010
Original Version
English (french/english subtitles),  colour, 35mm, 105 min.
Production
SAGA Production Sàrl, Les Films Pelléas, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, SRG SSR, ARTE G.E.I.E., Canal +
Producer
Robert Boner
directed by
Jean-Stéphane Bron
Written by
Jean-Stéphane Bron
Cinemato­graphy
Séverine Barde, Julien Hirsch
Editing
Simon Jacquet
Sound Editing
Benoît Hillebrand
Music
Christian Garcia Gaucher
Location Sound Mix
Jean-Paul Mugel

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
Playtime

Worldwide Distribution

France
Les Films du Losange Distribution
Release date: 18.08.2010
Italy
Sacher Distribuzione Distribution
Release date: tba
Switzerland
JMH Distributions SA Distribution
Release date: 09.09.2010

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