L'outsider

The year is 2008. The global economy has been struck by the worst crisis since 1929. For the first, most conspicuous scandal that shook the world's financial markets, a single person is allegedly responsible – stockbroker Jérôme Kerviel. The highest banking losses in history (nearly five billion euros!), incurred by the French bank Société Générale, were attributed to this only 31-year-old employee, who after graduating from the University of Lyon in 2000 began working at the bank as an ordinary clerk. No one could have suspected that this unassuming young man would dare to go so far, so fast. He because a star at the stock exchange, earning the nickname "the cash machine". But could he, alone and in total secrecy, have really gambled on the biggest jackpot in banking history, totalling 50 billion euros? Based on actual events, this spellbinding, brilliantly shot film has major audience appeal. (Art Film Fest)