Master of the Universe

A film by Marc Bauder
D/A 2013, 88 Min.
HD Cinemascope / DCP
Fertiggestellt

Synopsis

 

He was one of the Top-Investmentbankers in Germany. He made a million profit per day. Now he is sitting in an empty bank building in the financial center of Frankfurt and talks. A frightening insight in a megalomaniac, quasi-religious parallel world behind mirrored windows.

 

"A vertiginous look inside the bubble behind the financial bubble, with no end in sight." 

New York Times 
 
"Former investment banker Rainer Voss gets his closeup in Marc Bauder's riveting documentary."
Variety
 

"Marc Bauder's quietly disturbing film is near-perfect."
Film Journal International

 

Rotten Tomatoes: 100%

 

Credits

 

Director:

Marc Bauder

 

Photography:

Boerres Weiffenbach

 

Editors:

Hansjoerg Weissbrich

Rune Schweitzer

 

Music:

B. Fleischmann

 

Sound:

Michel Klöfkorn

 

Executive Producer:

Markus Glaser

 

Commissioning Editors:

Esther Schapira

Gudrun Hankel-El Ghomri  

 

Producers: 

Marc Bauder

Markus Glaser

Wolfgang Widerhofer

Michael Kitzberger

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

 

Production:
bauderfilm 

NGF - Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH

 

in coproduction with:
Hessischer Rundfunk

Südwestrundfunk

arte

With support of:
Hessische Filmförderung
Fernsehfonds Austria


World Sales:
Autlook Filmsales

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Awards

European Documentary 2014, European Film Award (2014)
Nomination: Best Documentary, Deutscher Filmpreis (2014)
Best Documentary, Preis der deutschen Filmkritik (2014)
Prize of the Semaine de la critique, Festival del Film Locarno (2013)
Nominations: Best Documentary, Best Music, Best Photography, Preis der deutschen Filmkritik (2013)
Special Jury Prize, Paris Human Rights International Film Festival (2014)

Festivals

Festival del Film Locarno, 2013
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival CPH:DOX, 2013
IDFA, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, 2013
Zurich Film Festival, 2013
DokLeipzig. International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, 2013
Festival dei Popoli Florence, 2013
Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, 2014
ZagrebDox, International Documentary Film Festival Zagreb, 2014
Paris Human Rights International Film Festival, 2014
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, 2014
CMU International Film Festival Pittsburgh, 2014
Istanbul Film Festival, 2014
Jeonju International Film Festival, 2014
Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw, 2014
DocsBarcelona, 2014
Docville International Documentary Film Festival, Leuven, 2014
Lemesos International Documentary Festival, 2014
International Film Festival of Colombo, 2014
a.o.


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