Release Date

19 Oct, 2016

Runtime

00:33: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

The Swap is the third chapter of the PolEc Trilogy, comprising Wandering Marxwards (1998) and The Three Failures (2006). It features the same character as in the previous episodes, but now reduced to a lost, exhausted soul roaming Shanghai's cityscape from the remotest periphery to the financial district. Another narrative, spoken this one, takes us to September 2008, as gigantic bailouts put the financial system on life support instead of letting it collapse, thus seizing our reality and replacing it with a fiction tailored for the situation. These two streams end up meeting on a Shanghai dancefloor, where unresolved contradictions can finally be performed.

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Actors

Michael Blum

Bake He

Cao Lu

Cherry Wang

Choi A Ran

He Zhijie

Jia Junjie

Liu Huiling

Qian Yunqiu

Yangsu Ruyi

Yang Yahang

Zhang Wanying

Zhu Er

Zhu Li

Sara Di Donato

Paulina Przeniczna

Yulina Semenova

Paul Han

Scott Pelley

Milton Friedman

Ben Bernanke

Crew