I want to see the manager

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Movie
Original title I want to see the manager
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2014
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Hannes Lang
script Mareike Wegener (concept)
production Hannes Lang, Mareike Wegener
music Peter Rösner
camera Thilo Schmidt
cut Stefan Stabenow

I Want To See The Manager is a German-Italian documentary - episode film by Hannes Lang about globalization-induced upheavals. The premiere of the film took place on November 10, 2014 at the CPH: DOX Festival in Denmark. The cinema release in Germany was on September 3, 2015.

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Centro Financiero Confinanzas in Caracas

"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say: I want to see the manager."

- William S. Burroughs , quoted at the beginning of the film

Lang argues that the current world order is undergoing a change: the division into those who own property and those who have nothing - or in other words, industrialized and developing countries  - is about to be reversed; Countries like the People's Republic of China , Russia , Brazil or India would replace the leading industrial nations in the long term. A banker in a slum in Mumbai delivers the facts while the camera rises to reveal the banking skyline.

Then begins a journey through six other locations around the world that are exemplary of the global restructuring. The government has started mining lithium in a salt desert in Bolivia . A native couple who live traditionally are also planning to enter the trade and participate in the progress. In Beijing , the government is trying to regulate car ownership by means of a registration lottery, while in Detroit the line to death is becoming blurred; a company offers to freeze people in the hope of medical advances in the future. In a nursing home in Chiang Mai , Thailand , patients from industrialized nations are mainly cared for because it is cheaper to accommodate them there. A nurse admits that she has developed a strong emotional bond with her patient. In Pompeii , a man disguised as a gladiator is fighting for the favor of tourists. It concludes with a portrait of the Centro Financiero Confinanzas in Caracas , which has been in ruins for 20 years and was occupied by the poor and homeless until mid-2014.

criticism

The film was received mostly positively. The film service saw “seven precise, sparkling snapshots around the globe that would look at the confusing, chaotic state of the world like under a microscope”. The "visually and dramatically very carefully designed miniatures" revolved around "the state of economic development and its consequences for people". The linking of the "content-wise disparate, narrative but subtly composed stories" is incumbent on "largely the interpretive art of the viewer".

Awards

The film was nominated for the CPH: DOX Award in 2014 and for the Golden Firebird Award at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2015 . At the Festival dei Popoli in 2014 he received the Gli Imperdibili Prize. In 2015 he received an honorable mention at the Bolzano Film Festival and won the main prize at the Perugia Social Film Festival.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for I Want To See The Manager . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2015 (PDF; test number: 153 522 K).
  2. ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed September 9, 2015 .
  3. ^ I Want To See The Manager. Film service , accessed on September 9, 2015 (short review).
  4. ↑ Awards. Internet Movie Database, accessed September 9, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Awards. Perugia Social Film Festival, accessed October 1, 2015 (Italian).