A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006)
84 min
Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack's nonfiction treatise Crude Awakening joins Maxed Out, An Inconvenient Truth, and other recent documentaries devoted to unearthing and exploring forces that are untying the connective threads of contemporary society. The subject at hand is crude oil - specifically, the depletion of petroleum from the Earth, in an era when consumption threatens to exceed supply.
- Release date
- March 1, 2006
- Country of origin
- Switzerland
- Music
- Philip Glass, Daniel Schnyder
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Trailer
Cast
- Wade Adams as Self - Researcher in Nanotechnology
- Abdul Samad Al-Awadi as Self - Oil Consultant
- Fadhil J. Al-Chalabi as Self - Former OPEC Executive Secretary-General
- Roscoe Bartlett as Self - US Congressman
- Robert Bottome as Self - Economist, Caracas
- Colin J. Campbell as Self - Oil Geologist
- Marcello Colitti as Self - Former Chief Executive of ENI S.p.A.
- Alberto Quirós Corradi as Self - President of Allied Consulting, Caracas
- Mir-Babajev Mir-Jusiv Fazilogli as Self - Oil Historian
- Daniele Ganser as Self - Historian
Crew
- Basil Gelpke · Director
- Raymond McCormack · Director
- Basil Gelpke · Writer
- Raymond McCormack · Writer
- Raymond McCormack · Producer
- Philip Glass · Composer
- Daniel Schnyder · Composer
- Frank Messmer · Cinematographer
- Daniel Pfisterer · Cinematographer
- Georgia Wyss · Editor
- Melinda Gelpke · Production designer