The Crimson Permanent Assurance
- Sydney Arnold
- Guy Bertrand
- Andrew Bicknell
- Ross Davidson
- Myrtle Devenish
The Crimson Permanent Assurance is a short film by Terry Gilliam. He was released in May 1983 and is incorporated as a supporting film The Meaning of Life in Monty Python movie. In the synchronized theatrical version of the film that ran under the title GmbH ( Limited hope ) while he was released on later German video and DVD releases under its original English title. The film is a satirical examination of capitalism, the exploitation of labor and the use of older employees in the company.
Content
The Permanent Assurance is a small, old-fashioned financial company which has its registered office in an older building in the City of London. The offices are old fashioned, the staff are all older men. The new management of the company, young, dynamic business, exerts on the staff of strong pressure to perform and they feel like galley slaves. When one of her colleagues to be dismissed for lack of performance, the staff mutinied against their management. The aging of the permanent employees Assurance transform into pirates on the sea of high finance. They make their office building ready for sea and sail out of the city into the open sea to teach the international financial community to fear. From filing cabinets are cannons, office equipment becomes sabers, daggers and other small arms. The pirates raided a financial center in the world by one and place it in ruins. But one day, a surprising conclusion: Certain theories about the sphericity of the earth prove to be wrong, and the House of Permanent Assurance sailing over the edge of the world and crashes.
In the feature film The Meaning of Life is taken later briefly with respect to the supporting film. A group manager is sitting in the conference room on their agenda than before the window appears the House of permanent Assurance and the pirates want to board through the window of the conference room. The background spokesman explained, here is the pre-film have inadvertently crept in, but on the other hand you have taken precautions. Then crushed tips over a high-rise building, the house of financial pirates.
Background information
The film's title refers to Robert Siodmak's film The Crimson Pirate ( The Crimson Pirate ). The building of permanent insurance, which is shown at the beginning of the film, is the office building of the Lloyd 's Register of Shipping in Fenchurch Street in London.
Terry Gilliam made the film with a different cast, as it occurs, the meaning of life in the main movie. Gilliam himself, as well as Graham Chapman, Michael Palin and Terry Jones occur only in small supporting roles, and that this is mentioned in the credits.