Cleveland Versus Wall Street
On 11th January 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. This 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
Year: 2010
Genre: Documentary, Crime, Drama
Studio: Les Films Pelléas, ARTE France Cinéma, SAGA Production
Director: Jean-Stéphane Bron
Cast: Barbara Anderson, Keith Taylor, Michael Osinski, Tony Brancatelli, Peter Wallison, Frederick Kushen
Runtime: 94 minutes
Release: May 16, 2010
IMDb: 7.40/10 by 10 users
Popularity: 1
Country: France, Switzerland
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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