I want my money back, shows how director Leo de Boer lost his money and that belonging to his 17-year old son, Michael, in the financial crisis. ‘How should I tell him?’, Leo asks himself in the film. He got greedy because he wanted the highest interest and best returns on his money. The crisis hit him hard. It all started with the downfall of the Icelandic miracle bank: Icesave. Followed by Leo’s catastrophic adventures in the 'casino' of the investment world when he tried to regain the money he’d lost.
Looking back, Leo tries to find the answer to the question ‘what got into me!?’
In the film Leo meets people like himself who have been hurt by the crisis. When the sky was still the limit they went for the highest interest. But then the bubble burst…
His quest also leads him into the world of big finance. The world of bankers and bonuses, where the financial crisis was born. When he sees how things work there, Leo asks himself: ‘what’s the difference between my own behavior and that of the banks?’ ‘Nothing’, replies a former top banker from ABN-AMRO.
I want my money back is as unsettling as Inside Job. But it distinguishes itself from other films on this subject because the greed that Leo shows is the greed in all of us...
