A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash

The Oil Crash is a Swiss documentary that focuses on the global peak oil.

Action

The film focuses on the history of oil production, today's dependence on oil, the global peak oil and the future life without oil. Here some excerpts from expert interviews are shown.

Interviews

In the film are, inter alia, following persons interviewed:

• Matthew Simmons, American investment banker
• Colin J. Campbell, English geologist and oil researcher
• Daniele Ganser, a Swiss peace researcher and historian

Background

Production company of the film is the Zurich Lava Productions AG. Movie rental company is Zurich Columbus Film AG.

The world premiere of the film took place on 11 March 2006 at the SXSW film festival. With nearly 400 premieres viewers ' expectations of the producers were far exceeded.

Reviews

" Unfortunately, the authors of" The Oil Crash " sometimes succumb to the power of their images and make pure striking relationships ago, for which no causal relationship exists such as in the bombing of Baghdad. Pleasant in the face of unpleasant insights is that the authors in contrast to the questionable " An Inconvenient Truth ", never lift the moral high ground. "

"The film is aimed primarily at an American audience. What is also good, as they are the largest consumer of global oil reserves by far. "

" The filmmakers bring in rare and repeated very meaningful archival material. Too bad that the numbers, dates, facts that the talking heads spread along with the comment, follow in a cadence that they will soon once buried the audience to themselves. "

" After the movie, one feels a bit like an out greasy ancient Romans, the suspects the downfall of his empire, but still needs to eat a plump chicken. "

Awards

The film has, inter alia, the following awards:

• Zurich Film Prize 2006: Best Documentary
• Palm Beach International Film Festival 2007: Best Documentary Feature