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The Green Lie

Panorama

An Excellent Documentary, And A Timely Warning Message–An Appeal to The Enlightened Consumers

Modern Times
  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Werner Boote
  • Austria 2018
  • 97 minutes
  • German, English, Portuguese
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

“When you shop with a conscience, you don’t save the world, you save the corporations”. Environmentally friendly electric cars, sustainably produced food products, fair production processes: Hurray! If everything the corporations tell us is true, we can save the world through our purchasing decisions alone! But are the industry's “green products” nothing more than a sales strategy?

Documentary filmmaker Werner Boote shows us, together with environmental expert Kathrin Hartmann, how we can protect ourselves. They banter, they agree to disagree and ultimately bring freshness to a never-ending debate.


  • Director Werner Boote
  • Production Markus Pauser, Erich Schindlecker
  • Script Werner Boote
  • Cinematography Dominik Spritzendorfer, Mario Hötschl
  • Editing Gernot Grassl, Roland Buzzi
  • Music Marcus Nigsch
  • Festivals Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Thessaloniki
  • Actors Werner Boote, Kathrin Hartmann, Noam Chomsky, Raj Patel
  • Source Wide House, Paris