The Offshore Reserves (2004)

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Country: Russia
Genres: Comedy, Short
Release: 2006-01-01
Director: Jamie Bradshaw , Aleksandr Dulerayn
Writers: Jamie Bradshaw , Aleksandr Dulerayn
Language: English | Russian
Stars: Dmitriy Troitskiy , Maggie Macmillan , Gleb Aleynikov , Jon Harrison , Oleg Khaybullin , Anna Markova
Runtime: 15 min
Awards: 2 nominations
AKA: Offšoru rezerves (Latvia) , Офшорные резервы (Russian Federation) , The Offshore Reserves
Plot: Hannah Marker, Deputy Director of the American humanitarian aid organization, U.S.AID, has a serious problem. She is addicted to the sight of money. Her doctor tells her the problem stems from her confusion of concrete and real money. Whenever she sees an American dollar she envisions the true ideal of money, absolute happiness, and is thus transfixed. Afflicted. Because her problem «illness» is triggered only by the sight of her own currency, Hannah's doctor advises her to leave America in order to get well.Hannah travels to Moscow, Russia to distribute a package of food aid to the Russians: $100,000,000 in chicken legs. Hannah is happy in Moscow; Rubles have no affect on her. But while performing a series of tests on the chicken legs she accidentally discovers they are infected with a virus. Misha Galkin, her Russian liaison from the Ministry of Food And Agriculture, offers her a bribe to let shipment pass through customs. He opens a briefcase full of $1,000,000 in cash. Seeing the money, Hannah is paralyzed. She cannot refuse the money. But the thought of going on living haven take a bribe is also too much to bear. Hannah´s mind undergoes a psychological transformation. She becomes a different person. And then our story takes an unexpected turn...
IMDB:tt0469492