Power Trip (2003)

Corruption, assassination and street rioting surround the story of the award-winning film, Power Trip, which follows an American multi-national trying to solve the electricity crisis in Tbilisi, capital of the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. Power Trip provides insight into today's headlines, with a graphic, on-the-ground depiction of the challenges facing globalization in an environment of culture clash, electricity disconnections and blackouts.

Released Dec. 17, 2003 86 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.georgia-europe, imdb.tbilisi-georgia, imdb.electricity, imdb.blackout, imdb.culture-clash, imdb.corruption, imdb.globalization + 30 more, imdb.economic-pressure, imdb.economic-hit-man, imdb.abacus, imdb.begging-for-mercy, imdb.debt, imdb.paying-bills, imdb.self-sufficiency, imdb.perestroika, imdb.wine-making, imdb.abandoned-building, imdb.poverty, imdb.cross-cultural-relations, imdb.expatriate, imdb.human-rights, imdb.nation-building, imdb.ressentiment, imdb.exploitation-of-the-downtrodden, imdb.economic-exploitation, imdb.civic-activist, imdb.civic-engagement, imdb.citizen-action, imdb.privatization, imdb.common-good, imdb.corporation, imdb.capitalism, imdb.socialism, imdb.imperialism, imdb.economic-crisis, imdb.critique-of-capitalism, aspectratio.1-85-1