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Prisoners of Debt: Inside the Global Banking Crisis
198357 min 35 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Peter RaymontRobert Collison
Production: John KramerJohn Spotton
Script: Robert Collison
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in association with the CBC.
This fast-paced documentary tells the inside story of how Bank of Montreal chairman William Mulholland dealt with his bank's debt-laden customers, Dome Petroleum and Mexico, during the summer of 1982, the summer the global debt crisis took the world by surprise. Interwoven with the Bank of Montreal's story are interviews with well-known international bankers and financial experts who explain the causes of the debt crisis, confirm the extreme fragility of the international banking system, and outline the problems to be solved if the system is to survive.
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Subject categories
- Economics > Finance, Investment and Taxation
Credits
- director
- Peter Raymont
- Robert Collison
- producer
- John Kramer
- executive producer
- John Spotton
- screenplay
- Robert Collison
- camera
- Mark Irwin
- Rene Ohashi
- sound
- Bryan Day
- editing
- Murray Battle
- sound editing
- Robin Leigh
- re-recording
- Terry Cooke
- narrator
- Peter Raymont
Awards
- Actra Award for Best Writer given to Robert Collisson - Category: Documentary/Public Affairs Itinerant - Annual ACTRA Awards