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Cash & Marry

Cash & Marry takes look into the lives of young men from the Balkans who seek out wives in order to obtain an Austrian passport.

Premiere Date

November 30, 2009

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Atanas Georgiev

Producer/Director

Atanas Georgiev was born in 1977 in Skopje, Macedonia, in what was then Yugoslavia. He graduated in 2000 from the Academy of Drama Arts in Skopje in film & TV editing, and edited numerous feature films, documentaries, shorts, and music videos. Now he lives and works as a director and editor in Prague and Skopje. He is also owner and producer of Trice Films Production, based in Skopje and Prague. The film Cash & Marry earned him a pulmonary embolism, and also the Regards de Neuf Award in Nyon, Switzerland.