Cash & Marry

 (Documentary -- Austria-Croatia-Macedonia)

By ALISSA SIMON


A Mischief Films (Austria)/Nukleus (Croatia)/Trice Films (Macedonia) production in cooperation with ITVS, ORF, supported by Film Fonds Wien, Fernsehfonds Austria, Ministry of Culture Croatia, Ministry of Culture Macedonia. (International sales: Autlook Films, Vienna.) Produced by Sinisha Juricic, Ralph Wieser, Atanas Georgiev. Directed by Atanas Georgiev. Written by Marjan Alcevski.
 
With: Marko Prica, Barbara Steiner, Atanas Georgiev, Liljana Georgieva, Marijana Kotevska, Aleksandar Manic, Roland Kier.
(English, German, French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian dialogue)

 
A "provocumentary" with a fresh perspective on immigration, the cheeky, ultra-low-budget "Cash & Marry," from Macedonian helmer Atanas Georgiev, explores the motives of cosmopolitan young Eastern Europeans in Vienna seeking marriages of convenience as a fast track to European Union passports. Some desire better-paying work; others just want to travel freely. Full of anarchic charm, albeit too much shaky-cam, the docu, already an award-winner on the fest circuit, could play specialty venues before seguing to broadcast.

The pic opens with ebullient Bosnian Marko Prica serving as best man at the wedding of a young Serbian who considers his €7,000 (about $10,000) payment to the bride a better investment than college: Married aliens can work legally and, after three years, apply for a passport.



In Austria, however, laws regulating the relationships between natives and foreigners are particularly strict, and reams of paperwork and frequent police checks are par for the course.

To provide a more complete look at the how the system works (and can be undermined), director Georgiev, 30 at the time of production, decides to make a sacrifice for the sake of his film and seek a bride of his own, much to the distress of his mother and fiancee back in Skopje, Macedonia. But even with the help of Marko, who creates flyers with the message "Will you marry me?" finding the right woman proves a difficult task.

Epitomizing the pic's audacity, the two go searching at a flea market where anything can be had for a price, and among the street prosties in a red-light district. They find a likelier candidate by posting fliers at universities: Fluent English speaker Barbara Steiner is a sincere member of the Austrian Communist Party who reasons that "so many people are getting married for economic reasons, it's the same." However, her parents, like Georgiev's mother, are aghast.

It's difficult to tell how much background on the project various participants were given beforehand and what might be scripted, especially in some eye-opening scenes featuring an immigration lawyer and a suspicious marriage registrar. In the end, who cares if the highly satisfactory finale was preordained? The absurdist pic still proves that not even borders, bureaucracy, Schengen regimes, language or culture can keep determined emigres out of fortress Europe.

Restless DV lensing has too much of a homemade feel, but the jaunty, judiciously used Balkan-flavored score by Foltin is just right.
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Camera (color, DV-to-DigiBeta), Dimo Popov; editor, Vladimir Gojun; music, Foltin; associate producer, Georg Misch; sound, Atanas Tcholakov. Reviewed at Sarajevo Film Festival (competing), Aug. 17, 2009. (Also in HotDocs Film Festival.) Running time: 76 MIN.

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* ОВА ТРАНСПЛАНТИРАНА МАШИНА ЗА ЧУКАЊЕ
   ДОСЕГА НЕ ТИПКАЛА ЉУБОВНО ПИСМО


131
Ова трансплантирана
Машина за чукање
Досега не типкала
Љубовно  писмо
Ова трансплантирана
Машина за чукање
Досега не типкала
Љубовно  писмо
Чукам по старите
Возбудени дирки
Приближно 90
Удари во минута
Чукам по старото  
Механичко срце
Пулс Масажа  
Адреналин
 
 
87
Деновиве ќе минам
Низ твојот весел град
Ти порано ќе легнеш
А јас ќе задоцнам
Ти-ти-ти-Та
ти-ти-ти-Та-та-та
Швалерскио воз е во два
 
Почекај запали испуши до крај
Швалерскио воз е во два
 
Мојот ефтин штоф
И твојте чудесни чорапчиња
Плетат заплет тежок замрсен
 
 
128
Румени се руменат образите
Румени се руменат образите
Но, зошто да порасне љубовта наша
Ако ја разебиме, ќе заебиме
Овој сладок дремеж на жешкото сонце
Ќе се стопи нежно ко сладолед
Румени се руменат образите
Од  љубовта треба да се пазиме
Од љубовта треба да се пазиме
 
 
120
Ах, таа твоја дива
И несмасна љубов
Те галам дури предиш
Стуткана во скутов
Се проѕеваш се тегниш
Наспана и гладна
Бараш да те пуштам 
Ме гребиш и ме касаш
 
 
 
110
Во јули битола
 
На керамиди 
се лепат жештини
 
Облаците и небото 
се море немирно
 
Во јули битола
 
Во јули битола
 
Љуби ме
Вдиши ме
 
Љуби ме
Издиши
 
Љуби ме
Вдиши ме
 
Задржи здив
______________________________________________________________

* OVA TRANSPLANTIRANA MASINA ZA CUKANJE
  DOSEGA NE TIPKALA LJUBOVNO PISMO

131
Ova transplantirana
Masina za cukanje
Dosega ne tipkala
Ljubovno pismo
Ova transplantirana
Masina za cukanje
Dosega ne tipkala
Ljubovno pismo
Cukam po starite
Vozbudeni dirki
Priblizno 90
Udari vo minuta
Cukam po staroto
Mehanicko srce
Puls Masaza
Adrenalin
 
 
87
Denovive ke minam
Niz tvojot vesel grad
Ti porano ke legnes
A jas ke zadocnam
Ti-ti-ti-Ta
Ti-ti-ti-Ta-ta-ta
Svalerskio voz e vo dva
 
Pocekaj zapali ispusi do kraj
Svalerskio voz e vo dva
 
Mojot eftin stof
I tvojte cudesni corapcinja
Pletat zaplet tezok zamrsen
 
 
128
Rumeni se rumenat obrazite
Rumeni se rumenat obrazite
No, zosto da porasne ljubovta nasa
Ako ja razebime, ke zaebime
Ovoj sladok dremez na zeskoto sonce
Ke se stopi nezno ko sladoled
Rumeni se rumenat obrazite
Od ljubovta treba da se pazime
Od ljubovta treba da se pazime

 
 
120
Ah, taa tvoja diva
I nesmasna ljubov
Te galam duri predis
Stutkana vo skutov
Se prozevas se tegnis
Naspana i gladna
Baras da te pustam
Me grebis i me kasas

 
 
110
Vo juli bitola
 
Na keramidi
se lepat zestini
 
Oblacite i neboto
se more nemirno
 
Vo juli bitola
 
Vo juli bitola
 
Ljubi me
Vdisi me
 
Ljubi me
Izdisi

Ljubi me
Vdisi me
 
Zadrzi zdiv
 
______________________________________________________________
 
 
 

* LO-LEE-TA-TOO
 
 

When I play  
I make love to my little Clarinette
And she probably screams
 
 
 
        ***

 
 
Ladies 'n Gents of the Jury
Mr. Woody Allen is shootin' a movie
Is it the Beauty and the Beast 
Or the Beast and the Beauty! 
 
Lena, Milena, gianam, Liljana
I wanna show
There's so many things about…
Lo-Lee-Ta.

   

         ***

Jumpy, sweaty fingers
That's the Beast.
His tongue, 6 inches long
Makes 300 taps per minute.
His favorite finger
Also makes 300 tpm-s
And is 5.3 inches long.
Sometimes
He wears a ring,
Benny Goodone,
Quite expensive…
But, the new Clarinette:
She's a real Bitch!

         ***

 
Prsti, prsti…
 
Lisjata suvi
Gorat ko ludi.
Barem  so to suvoto
Da  gorese i suroto.
 
 
         ***
 
The tip of the tongue
takin' a trip
Of three steps down
The palate to tap,
At three,
On the teeth.
( tastin' the name
with the tip of the tongue )
Lo-Lee-Ta.
 
We have a dream situation:
The music is ending

Smilin' and screamin'
     

         ***

 
Vrvot na jazikot minuva pat,
Pat od tri stepeni po nepceto ke mine.
Vrvot na jazikot minuva pat
i na kraj vo zabite ke lupne:
 
GAR-NE-TA, GAR-NE-TA
I wanna show
There' so many things about…
Lena, Milena, Gianam, Liljana
I wanna show
There's so many things about.

Here's another interesting interview with the guys from Foltin.

Part One
&
Part Two

Enjoy!