How do we combat economic crime? / CPH:DOX 2022
Schedule
Mon Mar 28 2022 at 05:30 pm
Location
BIG BIO - Nordhavn | Herlev, SK
For this special event at CPH:DOX, we invite you to a screening of the film 'Wirecard: The Billion Euro Lie' followed by a panel debate.On March 28 professors of CBS (Copenhagen Business School) Kristian Bondo Hansen and Birthe Larsen will talk about economic crime, tax fraud and how to respond politically to fraud in corporations.
ABOUT THE FILM
Germany’s biggest financial scandal in a hard-hitting docu-thriller about big egos, billions of euros and shattered illusions. The incredible story of Wirecard has it all – and it’s true. And a really good one.
Wirecard was Germany’s answer to Silicon Valley. A financial success story that grew bigger than Deutsche Bank, and living proof that ‘Made in Germany’ still mattered in the 21st century. But in 2020, a gap of over 2 billion dollars is discovered in the company’s accounts. After that, everything quickly disintegrates. The directors are arrested or disappear. Shares plummet. Extensive fraud is uncovered. Thousands lose their jobs and even more lose their money. But then things get even stranger. Sex and crime. Lies and greed. Secret services and money laundering. Threats and ruined lives. The story of Wirecard gives even the most unbelievable fiction films a run for their money, and is a deep and disturbing dive into a mentality where tall tales end up becoming reality, as long as they are told with confidence and often enough.
CPH:DOX 2022 runs from March 23 to April 3. Read more about this year’s festival: www.cphdox.dk
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Til dette særlige event på CPH:DOX inviterer vi på visning af filmen 'Wirecard: The Billion Euro Lie' efterfulgt af en paneldebat.
D. 28/3 vil CBS-forskere Kristian Bondo Hansen og Birthe Larsen gøre dig klogere på økonomisk kriminalitet, skattesvindel og på, hvordan man kan gribe ind politisk over for svindelsager i virksomheder.
OM FILMEN
Tysklands største finansskandale i en veloplagt doku-thriller om store egoer, milliarder af dollars og brudte illusioner. Den utrolige historie om Wirecard har alt – og så er den sand. Og virkelig god.
Wirecard var Tysklands svar på Silicon Valley. En finansiel succeshistorie af et firma, der voksede sig større end Deutsche Bank, og et levende bevis på, at ‘Made in Germany’ fortsat betød noget i det 21. århundrede. Men i 2020 opdages et hul på over to milliarder dollars i virksomhedens regnskaber. Derefter går alting hurtigt i opløsning. Direktørerne arresteres eller forsvinder. Aktierne styrtdykker. Omfattende svindel bliver afsløret. Tusinder mister deres job, og endnu flere mister deres penge. Men så bliver tingene endnu mere mærkelige. Sex og kriminalitet. Løgne og grådighed. Hemmelige tjenester og hvidvaskning af penge. Trusler og ødelagte liv. Historien om Wirecard giver selv de mest utrolige fiktionsfilm kamp til stregen, og er et dybt og foruroligende dyk ned i en mentalitet, hvor løgnehistorierne ender med at blive til virkelighed, når blot de bliver fortalt med selvtillid.
CPH:DOX 2022 løber fra 23. marts til 3. april. Læs mere om årets festival: www.cphdox.dk/da
Where is it happening?
BIG BIO - Nordhavn, Hamborg Plads 6,Copenhagen, Denmark, Herlev