Marx reloaded / written and directed by Jason Barker ; co-direction, Alexandra Weltz ; co-producer, Jason Barker ; producers, Irene Höfer, Andreas Schroth ; a production by Medea Film/Irene Höfer, in co-production with Films Noirs.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Barker, Jason, screenwriter, film director, film producer, actor.

Weltz, Alexandra, film director.

Höfer, Irene, film producer.

Schroth, Andreas, film producer.

Posener, Ben, narrator.

Nikolić, Ivan, actor.

Medea Film Factory (Firm)

Films Noirs (Firm)

Icarus Films.

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883--Influence.

Marx, Karl.

Marxian economics.

Communism.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (52 min.) : digital, sound, color

polychrome

Place of Publication:

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2012]

Language Note:

In English, German and French with English subtitles; closed captioning available.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

A cultural documentary that uses some of the central ideas of 19th century German socialist and philosopher Karl Marx to try to make sense of the global financial crisis of 2008-09. This crisis prompted the U.S. government to spend more than 1 trillion dollars in order to rescue its banking system from financial meltdown. But can the largest financial losses in history really be put down to the natural risks and uncertainties of the free market? Or is there another explanation as to why the crisis happened and what its implications are for the future of our society, our economy, for our whole way of life?

Participant:

Voices, Jason Barker (Karl Marx), Ivan Nikolic (Leon Trotsky) ; narration, Ben Posener.

Credits:

Camera, Boris Becker [and 5 others] ; editors, Carsten Piefke, Nebojsa Andric, Steven Djordjevic ; Marx animation produced by Films Noirs.

Notes:

Title from title frames.

Originally produced by: ZDF/ Medea Film/Irene Höfer/Films Noirs Ltd., c2010.

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 22, 2015).

Publisher Number:

if-mrx Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.