Master of the Universe

(Marc Bauder, Austria/Germany 2013, 88 min., DCP, German w/subtitles)

Labor Film Series | Rochester Premiere. Maybe the real masters of the universe are not politicians, armies, or even nations: they are probably investment bankers like Deutsche Bank’s Rainer Voss. From a gleaming steel and glass structure in Frankfurt’s financial district, Voss offers a distinctive perspective on the out-of-control mechanics of modern global finance. He describes a parallel universe of extreme wealth and merciless pressure for profit, an opaque system that disconnects bankers from the outside world.

“A vertiginous look inside the bubble behind the financial bubble. A sobering antidote to irrational exuberance.” – New York Times