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The Emperor’s New Clothes
Synopsis
A look at the growing disparity between different economic classes. Comedian, provocateur and aspiring revolutionary Russell Brand leads a polemical documentary about the financial crisis from international banking centres in London and New York. Combining documentary style, archive footage and comedy routines to explore how the crisis has affected the working and lower classes while the famed “one percent” has benefited.
Tribeca Film Festival 2015 - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2015
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 95 mins
- Director
- Michael Winterbottom
- Producer
- Melissa Parmenter, Andrew Eaton, Michael Winterbottom
- Executive Producer
- Nik Linnen, Andrew Eaton
- Editor
- Marc Richardson
- Screenwriter
- Michael Winterbottom
- Director of Photography
- James Clarke
- Music
- Joel Cadbury
- Principal Cast
- Russell Brand, Bill de Blasio, Richard Brooks, Paul Mason, Michael Heseltine, Richard Murphy, Geraint Anderson
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Production status
Complete
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Last updated 22nd April 2015
