‘Let’s Make Money’ follows the tracks of our money through the worldwide finance system. Wagenhofer looks behind the scenes of the colourful backdrop of banks and insurance companies. What does our pension provision have to do with the property blow-up in Spain? We don’t have to buy a home there in order to be involved. As soon as we open an account, we’re part of the world-wide finance market – whether we want to be or not. The bank enters our account into the global money circuit. Possibly banks or pension funds lend our money to speculators. We customers have no idea where our debtor lives and what he does to pay our interest fees. Most of us aren’t even interested, because we like to follow the call of the banks: ‘Let your money work for you’. But this is absurd, money can’t ‘work’. Only people, animals or machines can work.
Erwin Wagenhofer was born 1961 in Lower Austria and graduated from the Vienna Institute of Technology and worked for years as camera assistant for various productions, feature films and documentaries. Since 1987 he is a freelance filmmaker.
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Let's Make Money
Austria
2008, 110', color, 35 mm
Directed by:
Erwin Wagenhofer
Screenplay by:
Erwin Wagenhofer
Cinematography:
Erwin Wagenhofer
Edited by:
Lisa Ganser, Paul M. Sedlack, Erwin Wagenhofer
Music:
Helmut Neugebauer
Producer:
Helmut Gasser
Produced by:
Celluliod Dreams