Title DossierDocumentary

Skandal! Bringing Down Wirecard

DocumentaryCrime

Upstart payment firm Wirecard wowed the financial industry with its runaway success — until a tenacious team of journalists exposed massive fraud.

Year

2022

Duration

1h 32m

IMDb

6.0

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Cast

FT

Florian Toncar

Self - Member of German Parliament, FDP

LK

Lena Kampf

Self - Journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung Newspaper & WDR

MO

Martin Osterloh

Self - Wirecard Employee

Cast

FT

Florian Toncar

Self - Member of German Parliament, FDP

LK

Lena Kampf

Self - Journalist, Süddeutsche Zeitung Newspaper & WDR

MO

Martin Osterloh

Self - Wirecard Employee

CK

Cansel Kiziltepe

Self - Member of German Parliament, SDP

DM

Dan McCrum

Self - Investigative Journalist, Financial Times Newspaper

PM

Paul Murphy

Self - Head of Investigations, Financial Times Newspaper

TB

Tobias Bosler

Self - Short Seller, Munich

ME

Matthew Earl

Self - Short Seller, London

Fahmi Quadir

Self - Short Seller, New York

CC

Christina Clementi

Self - Short Seller, New York

Lionel Barber

Self - Editor, Financial Times Newspaper

JM

Jan Marsalek

Self - Chief Operating Officer, Wirecard AG

Tom Kilbey

Self - Stock Market Trader

GK

Gary Kilbey

Self - Stock Market Trader

SP

Stefania Palma

Self - Journalist, Financial Times Newspaper

EK

Edo Kurniawan

Self - Head of Accounting, Wirecard Singapore

NG

Nick Gold

Self - Short Seller & Investor

FH

Felix Holtermann

Self - Journalist, Handelsblatt Newspaper

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Comments

10 Comments

Camille TrinidadMar 22, 2025

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Sofanit🦋🦋HoneyMay 23, 2023

All credit to Dan and the FT management for staying with a story even the German financial authorities tried to kill. Tenacious research and following of leads in Asia and Europe inspite of threats legal and otherwise reveals a real life financial scandal at one of Germanys largest companies. Fascinating insight into the world of short sells - not a very attractive bunch outside of two focuses American ladies who with others help lift the thick veil of secrecy of the fraudsters. Beats most financial dramas into small corner and makes you aware of the abilities of a determined fraudster to nearly make it even the German chancellor 'supported the company. Great insight into the talent and doggedness of a journalist never prepared to give up and of an editor prepared to take huge risks to get the story.

LawdPorry Mar 1, 2023

To be so quickly closed. It seems like a bit lacking to just leave it at company fall and Braun being arrested. I would hope there'd be some more coverage of consequences of the fraud when it comes to governmental involvement. Maybe part 2 or some future investigative piece will take a further look what else is implicated. Upon seeing this documentary I been in a classic internet rabbit hole to seek more information about involved actors, but there does not seem to be much more, or somebody did a pretty good scrape job to clean up the ties. Overall, I've seen some good pieces on Wirecard fraud, but this documentary provides a good amount of testimonies from people involved rather than just description of what happened.

Clipshot NeshOct 18, 2022

Sauce

Camille TrinidadOct 17, 2022

A very interesting documentary. Intense too, and challenging. You really have to concentrate to get everything. A bit too hard to follow sometimes maybe, the documentary sometimes opens pots it never closes, for example the investigation of the BaFin in the FT-Journalists. It is mentioned but no more. Leaves many questions unanswered. What was the role of the german regulators, why didn't they see anything and so on. But that is okay because it's a documentary out of the perspective of the FT-Journalists and these POV is - as I said - very interesting. At this point a special remark on the music which I really loved.

Virginia JOct 17, 2022

If you want to know the reason why people hate short sellers this film will give you a good idea. The cartoon character in his Cannes pile bemoaning what he didn't make by literally doing nothing is a perfect example. Their's, and the journalists glee at bringing down a company that employed thousands of people, and hundreds of thousands of investors, is quite hard to stomach. No doubt the company was dodgy to say the least but neither party were working for the good of mankind. The short sellers thinking only of the profit to be made by destroying the business, and the journalists revenge for having the tables turned on them. As a film it's well made and if you don't know the story worth the effort, personally I can't get over the unsurpassed delight at seeing the business fail.

khalilalbalush1Oct 17, 2022

Having watched the Wirecard: A Billion Euro Lie Sky documentary earlier this year, I was interested to see how this James Erskine Netflix piece deviated from the original. I'm pleasantly surprised as it takes an entirely different viewpoint, focusing mostly on the journalists, short sellers and MPs, rather than the former doc covering the whistleblowers and other influential parties. What ensues is an interesting value-add to the Wirecard story that helps to elevate the already thrilling saga of accounting fraud. The focus on Dan McCrum and team adds flavour to the narrative that was missing in the Billion Euro Lie doc. I do wish the whistleblowers were interviewed at the same extent however - though I imagine this may have been down to pre-existing agreements that would conflict. Overall, well worth a watch, and I'll await the third instalment of this documentary battle, coming from Amazon Prime, where they finally get Jan Marsalek to show his face.