What is human life? If a bank manager dies: Does he count more than EinFeuerwehrmann or an illegally-arrived migrant OhneArbeitserlaubnis, who kept his family with temporary jobs over water? Wieentschädigt people after an environmental catastrophe that has destroyed ir WirtschaftlicheExistenz? Can impairment, which means a serious disease triggered by poison, be weighed down by money? Ifyes, by what sums?

It no correct answer to such questions – and yet Kenneth Feinberg has to Siebeantworten. The 72-year-old lawyer is star of DenEntschädigungsspezialisten in United States. It is called when it comes to besondersschwierige and serious cases: Agent Orange, Deepwater horizon, Der11. September 2001, Sandy Hook. Feinberg is commissioned by government, VonRichtern or company. His job is to tell you suffering from neck to haltenund in your place with victims and bereaved. and Einefinanzielle solution to find injuries at least one bisschenkompensiert.

In IhremFilm playing God portrays German director KarinJurschick Feinberg and his work. In quiet, taken back pictures zeigtsie him as a successful but not unsympatic East Coast lawyer, a perceptive, cool Argumentierenden man; As someone who loves operas, admits candidly, his acting talent in dealing with Opferneinzusetzen – and who knows about ethical problems of his work. "Wasglauben, why am I awake till three o'clock at night?" he asks DieRegisseurin once. "I wonder what right thing is, what I tunsoll. How do you do right thing? "

Playing God: The title of film alludes to a shield that held survivors VonOpfern of September 11th on a demonstration against Feinberg in camera. "Stop playing God!" stood out: "Stop playing God!"

Fine mountain itself naturally sees its work differently. "I calculate value einesLebens exactly as judges and jurors do it in every court and JederStadt," he says. "It's a cold mamatical formula: Waswürde deserve a person in ir working life, wouldn't it have been tragedy?" The lawyer gives answer himself: stockbroker, banker undAnwälte more than waiters, cops and firefighters. Added to this is "pain and suffering", value of which is calculated based on eineramtlichen statistics.

Just Seidaran nothing, says Feinberg. "It is hardly fair to give money to people who have lost ir loved ones. But that's American way. "

Jurschiklässt Their viewers do not realize what she thinks of Feinberg. One has to make misrepresent a verdict, while lawyer is visited with director in SeinerKanzlei and at home, he listens to himself, his wife, professional companions, survivors and critics about his work and sees archival material from previous cases.

EineHinterbliebene of September 11th calls compensation that she has by finer, "money" – yet she is grateful for help. Anor is indignant at how low Feinberg life of her son estimates: he was a firefighter and died in action, But because he had to provide KeineFamilie, parents and siblings received only einevergleichsweise minor compensation. A fisherman who received money after derDeepwater-horizon catastrophe calls lawyer a MutigenMann because he has faced wrath of many or fishermen. Because y're mehrheitlichwütend on Feinberg. They feel drawn over table: Fed with a low sum, because y could not prove actual amount of ir Verlustedokumentieren nor that ir diseases were caused by oil. In return, y still had to waive ir individual right of action against BP. Feinberg calls this "fair". His critics say he helped company BP to buy himself free.

The rules of capitalism

During shooting lawyer received a new order: according to a legislative amendment, a pension fund should decide wher pension cuts are permissible. The livelihood of more alseiner million people and ir families was at stake. Jurschik Lässtihre spectators feel desperation of pensioners who see mselves – old and sick – for reward of a working life. And she shows Feinberg as a mediator who strives for fairness. In end, he rejects planned cuts; However, not to beizuspringen pensioners, but because pension fund will go bankrupt eir way, as is said. "I am now getting all this thanks to letters from retired people," said. "I just pushed out day of reckoning."

He himself could solve problems of a underfunded economy, problems DerMittelklasse, says Feinberg. He only enforces applicable law. And because that's true, playing God is not just a portrait of Dieseseinen lawyer, but a film about rules of capitalism in US, about its winners and losers – and about value that such a system has for a human life.

Date Of Update: 09 February 2018, 12:03