Apparachiks and Businessmen Director: Stan Neumann Running Time: 52 minutes France 2000 Post Screening Discussion With Director       The subject is economics. The conversion of millions of people to capitalism, its customs, its morals, its culture. A journey among these apprentices called upon to do rapidly what it took the West several centuries to accomplish. A journey through the debris of the former socialist bloc to Romania and further East the ex-Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldavia. What is happening there is called "the transition", a polite term to describe the chaos in which a new world is being born. This is a time for seemingly legendary reconversions, apparachiks - turned - businessmen, computer plants turned into can-opener factories, (socialist) workers turned into (capitalist) workers. And calling the shots the final metamorphosis where everything that exists turns to money. Take advantage of it while you can ! Because in two centuries there won't be a trace of it left. The dynasties currently rising in the East will then display the icy dignified mask of fortunes whose origins have been lost in the mists of time.       Screening: 28 October at 8.15 p.m.: Maison Francaise