After seeing director Hans Richter's Ghosts and Breakfasts,I stumbled across a short film that Richter had made in the same year,which led to me getting ready to discover how high the inflation could go.
The plot:
Opening with coins on the ground and notes falling in the air,the film shows the rich getting richer as the poor get poorer.
View on the film:
Made just before the "Golden Era" crashed in 1929,Hans Richter delivers harsh comparisons between the German economy and the US,as Richter splashes numbers across the screen revealing the terrible state that the German economy was in.Giving a human face to the inflation,Richter uses startling photo-animation to display the rich continuing to spend cash on luxuries,as the faces of the poor look on with no hope.
The plot:
Opening with coins on the ground and notes falling in the air,the film shows the rich getting richer as the poor get poorer.
View on the film:
Made just before the "Golden Era" crashed in 1929,Hans Richter delivers harsh comparisons between the German economy and the US,as Richter splashes numbers across the screen revealing the terrible state that the German economy was in.Giving a human face to the inflation,Richter uses startling photo-animation to display the rich continuing to spend cash on luxuries,as the faces of the poor look on with no hope.