The China Hustle

Mar 30, 2018

1h 24m

★ 7.2

There are no good guys in this story.

Overview

An unsettling and eye-opening Wall Street horror story about Chinese companies, the American stock market, and the opportunistic greed behind the biggest heist you've never heard of.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

2929 Productions

Jigsaw Productions

The Kennedy/Marshall Company

The China Hustle Trailers

Cast

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Dan David

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Matthew Wiechert

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Carson Block

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Jim Chanos

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Soren Aandahl

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Maj Soueidnn

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Alexandra Stevenson

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Crocker Coulson

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Dune Lawrence

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Drew Bernstein

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Gregory Coleman

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Herb Greenberg

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