The Ponzi Scheme

Feb 14, 2014

1h 25m

★ 7.8

Overview

Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large scale, and inspired Bernard Madoff.

Genres

History

Production Companies

TV5 Monde

Les Films du Poisson

Conseil Régional du Nord/Pas-de-Calais

CNC

ARTE France Cinéma

Pictanovo

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Cast

Charles Ponzi

Scali Delpeyrat

Rose

Céline Milliat-Baumgartner

Imelde Ponzi

Élizabeth Mazev

Cassulo

Jean-Christophe Quenon

Lucy Meli

Marie Dompnier

Franck Pope

Rodolphe Pauly

Charles Morse

Dominique Thomas

Banquier Chmelinski

Gérard Watkins

le commissaire O'Brien

Christophe Vandevelde

Daniels

Michel Masiero

Le représentant

Serge Saada

Zarossi

Jacques Bonnaffé

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