Release Date

13 Jan, 2011

Runtime

00:00: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

This documentary takes us to Zambia, a country with significant copper reserves. The state used to mine and sell copper itself. Then its price fell and the mines were forced to privatize in favor of Western multinational companies. While the proceeds used to finance schools, healthcare, and infrastructure, today all the money leaves the country, including generous subsidies from the European Investment Bank. Czech documentary filmmaker Ivo Bystřičan and cameraman Jiří Málek come to see what the situation, which seems to be taken straight out of the daily news in the Western world, really looks like. We are used to looking at the so-called Third World through the eyes of passionate activists fighting poverty and all kinds of humanitarian organizations. The Copper Age, on the other hand, soberly shows that we should be more interested in what this "selfless" aid looks like in practice.

Original Title

Doba měděná

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Actors

Crew

Jiří Málek

Ivo Bystřičan

Filip Remunda

Martin Mareček

Václav Flegl

Martin Mareček

Martin Mareček

Ivo Bystřičan

Tereza Horáková

King Jah

Tereza Horáková

Ivo Bystřičan

Martin Mareček