Feb 14, 2014
85 min
Full-HD

The Ponzi Scheme (2014)

Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large scale, and inspired Bernard Madoff.

Category

History Drama

Country

France

Companies

TV5 Monde Les Films du Poisson Conseil Régional du Nord/Pas-de-Calais CNC ARTE France Cinéma Pictanovo

Scali Delpeyrat

Charles Ponzi

Céline Milliat-Baumgartner

Rose

Élizabeth Mazev

Imelde Ponzi

Jean-Christophe Quenon

Cassulo

Marie Dompnier

Lucy Meli

Jean-Marie Denis

John Gnecco

Rodolphe Pauly

Franck Pope

Dominique Thomas

Charles Morse

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