Rogue Trader
Inspired by true events. Tom Walker is a young and ambitious investment trader who is catapulted from the bank’s dreary back office to the hectic trading floor. Overnight, he finds himself responsible for the troubled bank’s most complex and important portfolio. Due to a series of unfortunate decisions, he becomes one of the greatest rogue traders worldwide.
Cast
- The Narrator
- Ankie Beilke
- Tom Walker
- Paulo Aragao
- Marc Vanderbilt
- Tom Bowen
- Alexander Tarkov
- Oleg Kricunova
- Ben James
- Patrick Dewayne
- Neal Robertson
- Thure Riefenstein
Rogue Trader
David Preute
- Fiction
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2021
- Language
- engl. OF m. dt. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 80min
2.39:1, Discrete 5.1
Director & Crew
David Preute
Born in 1996 in Reutlingen. Studied at the University of Television and Film Munich. Diploma in directing at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Director of commercials, music videos, documentaries, and fictional shorts.
Filmography
| 2016 | Backswing | Kurzdokumentarfilm | |
| 2018 | Declassified | Kurzdokumentarfilm | |
| 2019 | Memoria | Kurzfilm | |
| 2021 | Rogue Trader | Spielfilm | 2021 |
“Stories of bankers like Nick Leeson, Kweku Adoboli, or Jerome Kerviel interest me not just from a filmic perspective. After graduating from high school, I was at a crossroads in my life. I had to choose between two passions of mine, but would be able to choose only one: I would either go into investment banking or follow my artistic passion for film.
I chose the latter. Then, when I read about their stories roughly two years ago, I soon realized: As young men, they had become part of a system the dynamics of which had soon gone beyond their control. If it wasn’t their story, it could easily be mine.”
- Writer
- David Preute
- Director of Photography
- Ahmed El Nagar
- Editor
- Philipp Straetker
- Production Designer
- Helene Brenner
- Set Designer
- Lisa Geller
- Costume Designer
- Amelie Wilfer
- Casting Director
- David Preute
- Sound
- Dominik Lange
- Sound Designer
- Andreas Goldbrunner
- Music Composer
- Giovanni Berg
- Dieter Schleip
- Make-up
- Lea Reitberger
- TV Commissioning Editor
- Claudia Gladziejewski
- Carlos Gerstenhauer
- Executive Producer
- Jan Linnartz
- Producer
- Fabian Carl