The Great European Disaster Movie (2015)
3.2 of 5 from 45 ratings
1h 27min
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- Synopsis:
30,000ft: sometime in the not-so-distant future. Eight year old Jane Monetti sits aboard an aeroplane destined for Berlin Tempelhof, but all is not well. Far below her is a post-Union Europe and countries that collaborated happily at the beginning of the 21st Century are regressing into a fractious collection of isolated nation-states. Scared by the turbulence, Jane strikes-up a conversation with archeologist, Charles Granda (played by Angus Deayton): he is about to give a lecture on the EU and he begins to explain to her what the European Union was and also what has been lost since its collapse. We rewind to 2014 and Annalisa Piras's film goes on to examine current-day Europe and the challenges that are mounting against the Union's survival. Beset by growing nationalism and an increasing dissatisfaction with its undemocratic political structure will Europe descend into the apocalyptic future presented at the beginning of the film? Using interviews, archival footage and an innovative... - Actors:
- Angus Deayton, Flavia Piras Trow, John Arthur, Neerja Naik, Peter Salmon, Geert Mak, Martin Wolf, Bernard Guetta, Philippe Legrain, Felipe González, Bill Emmott, Anna Diamantapoulou, Peter Mandelson, Pablo Iglesias, Alexis Tsipras, Thomas Piketty, Élisabeth Guigou, Winston Churchill, Nigel Farage, Kornelia Horvath
- Directors:
- Annalisa Piras
- Genres:
- Documentary, Special Interest
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