‘The Big Sellout’ is a political film. In various episodes the abstract phenomenon of privatisation is depicted in stories about very concrete human destinies around the globe. The documentary tells tragic, tragicomic but also encouraging stories of the everyday life of people, who day by day have to deal with the effects of privatisation politics, dictated by anonymous international financial institutions in Washington D.C. and Geneva, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Florian Opitz
Florian Opitz is a documentary filmmaker and journalist born in 1973 in Saarbruecken, Germany. He studied history, psychology and English at the universities of Cologne and Heidelberg. Since 1998 he has been working as a freelance filmmaker and journalist for several European TV stations, including ARD, ARTE and ZDF. His film debut was internationally acclaimed documentary The Big Sellout (2007). He has made several political documentaries, mainly about subjects related to globalization and history, next to films about Jack Kerouac, Charles de Gaulle, Naomi Klein, the history of the skinhead movement.
General sponsor
The Big Sellout
Germany
2006, 94', color, 35 mm
Directed by:
Florian Opitz
Cinematography:
Andy Lehmann
Edited by:
Niko Remus
Music:
Itamar Ziegler
Producers:
Felix Blum, Arne Ludwig
Produced by:
Discofilm Cologne, ARTE Strasbourg, BR Munich
