Cleveland Versus Wall Street
Synopsis
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
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Festival History
- Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2014 generic
- César Awards 2011 generic
- Cannes Film Festival 2010 generic
- São Paulo International Film Festival 2010 generic
Titles
| Original title | CLEVELAND VERSUS WALL STREET : MAIS MIT DÄ BÄNKLER | English |
| Alternate title | Cleveland contre Wall Street | |
| Alternate title | Cleveland vs. Wall Street | |
| Alternate title | Cleveland Versus Wall Street |
Versions & editions
| Alternate cut | 105 min | |
| Original version (English) |
Source: Cinémathèque québécoise, linked catalogue data (CC BY 4.0)
