CATASTROIKA

Catastroika (2012) analyzes the shifting of state assets to private hands.

Directors  Aris Chatzistefanou and Katerina Kitidi travel  to London, Paris, Berlin, Moscow and Rome gathering data on privatization and search for clues on the day after Greece's massive privatisation program - ordered by the World Bank and the IMF to pay off Greek's enormous debt.

Slavoj Zizek, Naomi Klein, Luis Sepulveda, Ken Loach and Greg Palast talk about the austerity measures being imposed on ordinary people while the wealthy remain untouched, and the attack on democracy throughout Europe.

Academics and specialists like Dani Rodrik, Alex Callinicos, Ben Fine, Costas Douzinas, Dean Baker and Aditya Chakrabortty present unknown aspects of the privatisation programs in Greece and abroad.

This documentary has English subtitles.