The Billions of Others

The Billions of Others (2024)

DocumentaryTV Movie

The market regulates everything! Diligence and work create prosperity! Capitalism needs growth! What is the truth behind the great principles of capitalism? And how do they work in Eastern Germany - a region that has been a capitalist test laboratory for around 30 years? It is symbolic of various places in the world that are going through similar processes. Renowned economic experts answer questions. How does a large-scale settlement of a global corporation like DHL take place and what must politics make possible for this? What happens when investors pour around a billion euros into one of the largest real estate projects in Europe in the Baltic Sea resort of Binz (Prora) on the Island of Rügen and no place is created that is worth living in? And how are the people in places like Zeitz, which capitalism has obviously forgotten? The film takes you through various stations, through the strongholds of Eastern German capitalism and the places where capitalism has not yet arrived.

Directors: Christoph Eder, Tom Fröhlich.

Casts

	Anne Ratte-Polle as Capitalism Goddess
	Harald Günther as Bank Angel
	Ulrike Malmendier as Self - Interviewee
	Cornelius Pollmer as Self - Interviewee
	Ulrike Herrmann as Self - Interviewee
	Peter Jungen as Self - Interviewee
	Daniel Hannemann as Self - Interviewee
	Simon Schandert as Self - Interviewee
	Kai Gardeja as Self - Interviewee
	Rolf Hoffmeister as Self - Interviewee
	Dörte Sasse as Self - Interviewee
	Andreas Horn as Self - Interviewee
	Ines Will as Self - Interviewee
	Christian Thieme as Self - Interviewee
	Markus Otto as Self - Interviewee
	Britta Böhme as Self - Interviewee
	Serkan Tuncer as Self - Interviewee
	David Dzialas as Self - Interviewee
	Steffen Amme as Self - Interviewee
	Holger Sasse as Self - Interviewee
	Georg Milbrandt as Self (archive footage)
	Angela Merkel as Self (archive footage)
	Constantin Schreiber as Self (archive footage)

Crew