Cleveland Versus Wall Street

Overview

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

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 16, 2010

Original language

English

Spoken languages

english

Countries

France, Switzerland

Production

ARTE France Cinéma,Les Films Pelléas,SAGA Production,Les Films Pelléas, ARTE France Cinéma, SAGA Production

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1646963