Season 1 • Episode 3
LatestThe end of the Cold War raised hopes of a new world. But in the face of the new world order, the great nations are making the docile choice of globalization. Russia and China, intent on preserving their spheres of influence to counter the all-powerful United States, will have to develop unprecedented alliance strategies. For the mafias, new territories and new markets are opening up. With so many financial transactions taking place every millisecond, dirty money is more untraceable than ever. Banks, the arteries of money circulation, are becoming the butlers of occult finance. From Moscow to Vancouver, from Beijing to Beirut, it's time for organised white-collar crime.
How, from the 1920s to the present day, financial power has gradually strengthened a hidden alliance with criminal organizations around the world.
Direction
Bouquet's patient, damning archival excavation.
Editing
Connects 1920s mobsters to modern shell companies with surgical precision.
Production
Rare access to financial records that wanted to stay buried.
Creator
Christophe Bouquet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This series dropped as French cinema was rediscovering its 1970s political thriller roots—Bouquet treats finance with the same paranoia Melville treated cops.
Bouquet spent four years requesting documents from banks that legally didn't have to comply; several scenes use footage he filmed through courthouse windows when denied entry.
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