The Driven Ones

Date:: 17 Sep 2024, 19:30–21:05

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Seven years with Europe's future economic elite in a meticulous exploration of the price of modern success. Screening as part of Beat Weekend 2024.

2022, Piet Baumgartner

Switzerland
93 minutes, English with Russian subtitles

Documentary

The Strategy and International Management course at the University of St Gallen is considered the best in the world, and those who aspire to rise to the top of the financial world enrol here. But will they succeed given the extreme competition and overstretched internal resources?

Shot from The Driven Ones, 2022

Precise, nigh-on clinical but also light and ethereal, Piet Baumgartner’s debut feature film helps us to look behind the scenes of an elitist world, dangerously navigating between success and total collapse.

— Giorgia Del Don, Cineuropa

Director Piet Baumgartner has followed the enrolment, studies and first professional steps of the five protagonists for almost seven years and has built his film with drive and tension. In front of his camera, the future employees of investment funds and corporations reveal qualities that will soon be hidden from the world.

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