Mammon

Timon is in trouble; he has lost almost all his savings. The reason is that "During the financial crisis in 2008 the people have lost their belief in the system, consequently the system simply collapsed." - at least, that is what Timon´s bank advisor says. Until then, Timon had not known that "the system" was depending on belief. That is what Gods depend on. Once he has heard that God only exists if you believe in him. Though Timon was baptised Roman Catholic and raised that way, this saying seemed less and less absurd as he became older. But what about the money - about "the filthy lucre"? Maybe it is just the same, maybe capitalism is "just" a religion, too?

We accompany Timon tying to understand our financial system, a system that we accept as God-given, that we were born into and that we depend on, but that only very few really are able to understand throughoutly.

Despite its good portion of childish naivety, the film tries to bring light into the darkness of the financial jungle, and with all of Timon's wits the observer regularly remains with open mouth or chocking laugh. Referring a late-breaking topic, a persistent crisis, which has grown from a real estate crisis into a bank and now even a Euro crisis, "Mammon" leads to questions about a far more fundamental issue: our finance system itself. It brings up a painful subject and with it commits itself to a traditional aim of documentaries in a modern manner: enlightenment and political education.