Copper Age
This documentary takes us to Zambia, a country with significant copper reserves. The state used to mine and sell copper itself. Then its price fell and the mines were forced to privatize in favor of Western multinational companies. While the proceeds used to finance schools, healthcare, and infrastructure, today all the money leaves the country, including generous subsidies from the European Investment Bank. Czech documentary filmmaker Ivo Bystřičan and cameraman Jiří Málek come to see what the situation, which seems to be taken straight out of the daily news in the Western world, really looks like. We are used to looking at the so-called Third World through the eyes of passionate activists fighting poverty and all kinds of humanitarian organizations. The Copper Age, on the other hand, soberly shows that we should be more interested in what this "selfless" aid looks like in practice.
Year: 2011
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Hypermarket Film
Director: Ivo Bystřičan
Cast:
Crew: Martin Mareček (Screenplay), Martin Mareček (Editor), Jiří Málek (Director of Photography), Ivo Bystřičan (Director), Tereza Horáková (Producer), Václav Flegl (Sound)
Runtime: 92 minutes
Release: Jan 13, 2011
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Country: Czech Republic
Language: English
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