Enron

Inside views of a large corporation: 'Enron' stands for the biggest financial scandal in US economic history. The energy company, whose insolvency caused 20,000 people to lose their jobs, based its business on consistent balance sheet falsification. The responsible managers had shamelessly enriched themselves personally until the last moment and, among other things, destroyed two billion dollars in pension funds of their employees. The documentary reconstructs the details of this stock market thriller.

'Enron - The Smartest Guys in the Room' is less a documentary than an exciting stock market thriller. The Oscar-nominated film is based on the book of the same name by business journalists Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. In addition to the two journalists, other stock market traders, politicians, lawyers and public prosecutors have their say in the film. 'Enron' thus portrays a prime example of failed deregulation and a venal economic policy that blindly trusts the market and its gold diggers.