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Master of the Universe

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Austria, Germany · 2013
Rated G · 1h 28m
Director Marc Bauder
Starring Rainer Voss, Angela Merkel
Genre Documentary

An anonymous insider of Germany’s financial world sits at the top floor of an empty bank after the 2008 crash. Marc Bauder’s interviews and research reveal the frightening and fascinating psychology behind investment banking. It is a world in which people believe themselves to be all-powerful, and where illusions are as powerful as money.

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Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl

Bauder's film is a diagnosis of a system that is hopelessly sick and not being treated. Bring a stress ball to squish up as you watch.

75

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

Marc Bauder's documentary quietly detonates the conservative notion that our largest corporations should be allowed to duke it out in metaphorical no-holds-barred cage matches.

90

Variety by Jay Weissberg

Less a portrait of an individual than of an unchecked culture where the lure of staggering profits eliminates ethics, Universe subtly exposes the pernicious effects of deregulation and does so in an ingeniously cinematic manner.

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The New York Times by Nicolas Rapold

Mr. Voss’s metaphors pile up helplessly: Finance is like being in the army, like catching a virus and as hard to grasp as quantum particles. The film in which he appears is a vertiginous look inside the bubble behind the financial bubble, with no end in sight.

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