Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher
1978
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Synopsis
This film is a short documentary portrait of economist, technologist and lecturer Fritz Schumacher. Up to age 45, Schumacher was dedicated to economic growth. Then he came to believe that the modern technological explosion had grown out of all proportion to human need. Author of Small Is Beautiful - A Study of Economics as if People Mattered and founder of the London-based Intermediate Technology Development Group, he championed the cause of "appropriate" technology. The film introduces us to this gentle revolutionary a few months before his death.
Key facts
Original language
English
Production companies
OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA
Crew
Screenplay
Donald Brittain
Producer
Donald Brittain, Barrie Howells, Douglas Kiefer
Cinematography
Douglas Kiefer
Editing
Barrie Howells
Music
Yehudi Menuhin, Yehudi Menuhin Youth Orchestra
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Festival History
- Sydney Film Festival 1979 generic
Titles
| Original title | Small Is Beautiful: Impressions of Fritz Schumacher | English |
| Alternate title | Schumacher : une société à la mesure de l'homme | |
| Alternate title | Société Nouvelle / Challenge for Change |
Versions & editions
| Original version (English) |
Full credits
| Director | Barrie Howells, Donald Brittain, Douglas Kiefer |
| Screenplay | Donald Brittain |
| Producer | Donald Brittain, Barrie Howells, Douglas Kiefer |
| Executive producer | Peter Katadotis |
| Cinematography | Douglas Kiefer |
| Editing | Barrie Howells |
| Music | Yehudi Menuhin, Yehudi Menuhin Youth Orchestra |
| Sound | Jean-Pierre Joutel, Fraser MacAninch |
Source: Cinémathèque québécoise, linked catalogue data (CC BY 4.0)
