|
Producer: Heribert Blondiau
Production company: Westdeutscher Rundfunk Koln
Source:
Brigitte Mößner
Westdeutscher Rundfunk Koln
Appellhofplatz 1
50600 Koln
GERMANY
Phone: +49 221 220 4726
brigitte.moessner@wdr.de
www.wdr.de
In July 2001, the leaders of the major industrialized nations met
in Genoa, Italy, for their annual G-8 summit. While the heads of states
and governments met indoors, nearby about 300,000 anti-globalization
activists rallied in the streets. The newly appointed Berlusconi government
assembled 20,000 policemen. A face-off was inevitable.
There were riots. Broken windows. Burning buildings. The police swooped
in, and soon hundreds of seriously injured protesters were admitted
to hospitals with broken ribs, legs, and arms. That is all known.
But STORMING THE SUMMIT goes beyond those facts to suggest an explosive
conspiracy. Was the "Black Block" of violent protestors in
fact collaborating with the police? Was their destruction staged to
give the police an excuse to attack the protestors? STORMING THE SUMMIT
explores these and many other explosive questions.
Michael Busse was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1941. He studied at
the University of Hanover and the University of Grenoble. He has worked
as a photographer and camera assistant, as well as a lecturer at the
Film and Television school in Berlin, and as a journalist and commissioning
editor.
Maria-Rossa Bobbi was born in Piacenza, Italy, and studied at the University
of Parma and the University of Genoble. Since 1980, she has worked as
a free-lance journalist and filmmaker, collaborating with Michael Busse
on some fifty films and reportages.
Filmography as Directors (selected)
STORMING THE SUMMIT (2002)
THE ANDREOTTI TRIAL (1999) |
