Commercial banks traditionally the linchpins of German capitalism, and still among the country's biggest industrial shareholders are changing their behaviour too.
There were plenty of moving parts: two commercialbanks (in Los Angeles and London), a German media fund, a London foreign sales distributor, an Italian financier and Canadian officials to arrange for subsidies for locating the film in that country.
The French and German governments should be able to provide the funds to any of their banks unable to raise the needed capital from commercial investors.