300 Trillion – The Debt Trap

written and directed by: Rudolph Herzog
dop: Henning Brümmer
editor: Barbara Zosel
composer: Friederike Bernhardt
1.AC: Johanna Jannsen

The world is addicted to debt. On the one hand you have states, companies and private individuals who can’t get enough of the sweet drug of money, using it to finance generous tax giveaways, loss-making business operations and overpriced real estate. On the other side are the creditors, who are no less hungry for interest-bearing securities.