
The stock broker Franz Von Bierman has been speculating on the stock market and lost a lot of money..

Mauritz Stiller
Sweden

Mauritz Stiller’s 1914 one-reel furnace, clocking in at a breathless twenty-six minutes, detonates inside your skull like a nitrate flash. The plot—stockbroker aristocrat Franz von Bierman torpedoes his bloodline’s last gilded galleon on the roulette of copper futures—sounds almost quaint against the collateralized c...

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Mauritz Stiller

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" Mauritz Stiller’s 1914 one-reel furnace, clocking in at a breathless twenty-six minutes, detonates inside your skull like a nitrate flash. The plot—stockbroker aristocrat Franz von Bierman torpedoes his bloodline’s last gilded galleon on the roulette of copper futures—sounds almost quaint against the collateralized carnage of 2008. Yet the emotional leverage here is macrocosmic: every margin call is a cardiac arrest, every dumped certificate a severed artery. Stiller, still intoxicated on Dani..."


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