Michael Berger - A Hysteria

Depicting the biography of a corrupt banker poses a cinematic dilemma. How can the intentions of an individual, systematic contexts and historical eventualities be brought into harmony? Thomas Fürhapter´s nearly one-hour film Michael Berger – A Hysteria turns this problem outward by not covering up the moment of speculation. The subject of the film, Austrian investment banker Michael Berger, who became a dollar millionaire through a risky hedge fund, remains a chimera – an absent individual who also cannot be captured through his crime. There is not even a single picture of him to see, and all that is...