September Wheat

September Wheat

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 17, 1980

Runtime

1h 36m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

63%

Original Title

Septemberweizen

Production Companies

ZDF, Teldok

Director

Peter Krieg

Description

This documentary questions the uses and abuses of food commodities is concerned. The statements of farmers, scientists, traders, and speculators, as well as manufacturers and politicians are assembled to create a comprehensive view of the factors that determined how wheat was cultivated in the United States and how related markets functioned as the 1980s begun. The film takes its title from the wheat futures or contracts used in commodity market transactions, where the contract months include September.