Piigs (2017)

Claudia is trying to save the Cooperative company “Il Pungiglione“ from bankrupt: 150 workers will remain unemployed and 100 disabled people won’t have any further assistance. It’s a ticking time social bomb. Directors Adriano Cutraro(co-director)Federico Greco(co-director)Mirko Melchiorre(co-director) Writers Adriano Cutraro(co-writer)Federico Greco(co-writer)Mirko Melchiorre(co-writer) Stars Marshall AuerbachPaolo BarnardClaudia Bonfini Storyline PIIGS is a documentary that challenges prevalent European budgetary policies and the austerity dogma. It does so by bringing in lesser-known facts and evidence that have the effect of ridiculing prevalent European monetary policies and dominant political certainties. Did you know that the famous god-like Stability and Growth Pact with its 3% deficit limit and theories about critical government debt levels are based on purely invented figures and typing errors in Excel spreadsheet? However, austerity policies keep on dividing the continent into winners and loosers, creating great amount of suffering, particularly in so-called crisis countries. Consequently, the whole European project has become in doubt. PIIGS is a Southern European take into austerity dogma and states with the voice of prestigious international economists, intellectuals and experts, that the origin of the European debt crisis is not the inadequacy of people in crisis countries but the very foundation of euro itself. Unfortunately people are not immune to bad decision making, and the documentary shows how austerity turns into practice in Rome, focusing on a survival story of a cooperative assisting disabled people. Details Release date April 27, 2017 (Italy) Country of origin Italy Official site Official Facebook Language Italian Also known as . Filming locations Monterotondo, Rome, Lazio, Italy Production companies Radical PlansStudiozabalik