Maria Page #4

Synopsis: Based on the true story of an impoverished, unemployed mother of seven living under subhuman conditions in a cave-like basement of a block of flats in newly post-communist Romania. When her drunken husband loses his job and eventually goes away, her sad reality gets even bleaker as she struggles to support her children.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Cãlin Peter Netzer
  10 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Year:
2003
97 min
198 Views


- You're my brother...

But what if your kids have claims?

Please sign.

Not there! At the bottom!

The second page too.

That's it.

I give you 300 dollars.

It's all I got.

I'll leave it on the table.

- Do you enjoy it?

- Yes.

What happened? Where's Mala?

Did you call her?

I think she kind of paralyzed.

Her eyes are open

but she doesn't budge.

Oh, goodness!

Where do you go, my sweet one?!

Oh, Lord! My Milica!

You're gone and left us...

They're late again.

May she rest in peace!

This time she paid maintenance

for you.

From now on I won't put up with

you.

God rest her.

Wait! I'm coming.

P*ssy!

This dress is from your grandma?

You're new? Saw you someplace.

Slack business today.

It's too hot and they grow limp.

Stop giving her tips!

New lays don't start here.

She go into the bushes first,

prick her ass for starters.

Come girl, remember your rst

time!

I don't. I remember they called

you "Nickie scares the prickie".

Say that one more time and

I'll knock you out for a season.

Cool it, girls!

The cops!

The cops!

Nice but it's crazy

to spend all the money you brother

gave you on a night at the hotel.

And then what?

We could invest it in an ostrich.

You can capitalize on every

little part of an ostrich.

I couldn't care less.

At least I have something

to remember.

Something cool in this shitty life.

Where's this stuff from?

The church or the Red Cross?

- We get something to wear too?

- You will!

- Shoes, perhaps...

- I want a pair of hob-nailed boots.

I want T-shirts.

| always come to wear loana's.

- And I want...how do you call it?

- Balloons?

You have 250

to inate until you're old.

Not balloons! A TV set.

- No more no less than a TV.

- We'll get one.

And many balloons!

- l two child have.

- l have seven.

Not understand. What seven?

Seven children.

Child, child, child, child,

child, child, child!

| ashamed. Child seven!

l father! I help you.

You problem.

Me wife no more.

Allah want so.

Why do you kick me,

son of a b*tch?

- What did you say?

- Your mother's a b*tch!

- Say that again!

- Your mother's a whore!

Yours!

F*** you!

I guess we should hang

a red lamp at the door.

This is not good!

Your mother in a whore!

Your mother is a whore!

Is it true, mother?

It is true?

Told you times and again

not to play with them!

What could he do?

Stay here and watch your doings?

That's what he should do ?

Mala!

Mala!

Open up please.

Mala!

Let my Mona dance

and my godmother prance...

What's the matter with you, Maria?

Come on here.

Hey!

What's wrong with her?

- I don't know. You manage?

- We'll see.

Dana! Come here!

I'm a good woman

until you piss me off.

You either work with us or you

go where the f***ing wants you to.

You're picky? If he tells you

to go with him, you go!

Don't think you're better

than us all!

You stay home with your stupid

kids! Who made you have them?

Well, looks we're gonna have

fun!

Girls!

- Hi!

- Move your ass, they don't see me.

We are from Direct TV

and we'd like to lm your story.

Many think brothels

should be established.

Yes, that'd be ne! Quiet!

When the law is amended.

It's humiliating for you

to work in the street.

-And to risk so much!

- Yes, it's kind of humiliating...

We'd like you to make a live

broadcast as a humanitarian plea.

- What's that "humanitarian"?

- Shut up! You say "humanitarian"?

But when that man set himself

on re and nobody stepped in?

- That was humanitarian too?

- Come on, girls!

We may go and make a movie to

watch at night, so you can jerk off.

Wait!

The man on fire once

had a flat and sold it,

and now he wanted another

for free! Honest!

I piss on your honesty!

That man's dead. That's the truth!

Turkish!

Turkish truck there.

Many colored balloons in Turkey.

Ma... Maria! Guzel!

Thanks, but we don't need them!

Everybody to bed!

What are you doing here?

Please go!

Not trouble you!

Girl in parking give me address.

Not want you mad!

Not here! Take me someplace!

Why did you come?

I think much about you.

I want come with you.

I want...

you come with me.

Let it be...

- Who's this?

- The one who busted my balls!

Stop jerking off! It's fattening!

Come here for a f***!

Stop jerking off! It's fattening!

Come here for a f***!

You'd better ask us nice

and we come gladly.

Come here, fat mouth!

I'm used to ne cars, man!

Didn't you see the cars | cruise in?

When you want to scratch your

balls, you come to us too.

- Move your ass!

- Dont' push me, animal!

Watch it!

Mother f***er!

Don't worry! They just take us

to the station for a night, to look busy.

Moraru, Camataru,

Georgescu, Vaiscovici...

Fatso wants us

to have a drink with her.

- Mr. Commander...

- "Statement" or "Mr. Commander"?

She knows, she has three years

of school.

- The undersigned...

- With a "s' or a "z"?

- As you hear it, stupid!

- With an "s", from "suck"!

Nickie scares the prickie...

Hey, you over there!

Aren't you the one with the rape?

By your husband, right?

- Seems it set you going.

- Talk decently, man!

- Why pressure the poor woman?

- You sausage!

- Talk decently to us, ladies!

- Yeah! I know your kind!

You gave me money?

Here he comes!

We've met.

Come with me.

Come!

You 'ave something against her?

Leave her. It's her rst time.

See you in the morning!

Pay the ne, it can't be helped.

Shut yourtrap

or you stay here longer.

Chief! Why you take her there?

Is it bad?

We come to you live

from a police station

where a young woman

arrested for soliciting

has decided to tell her story.

Maria, we are listening to you!

How old is your eldest daughter?

- 16!

- She goes to school?

Not since the 6th grade.

What does she think

about your doings?

She doesn't have the guts

to tell me.

Allow us to lm in your house

so that the viewers understand

what made you start hustling.

All right.

Thank you.

In about 45 minutes

we'll bring you further details

about this dramatic yet true story.

Stay with Direct TV!

And now what?

We bring pales of water

from the cemetery pump.

Right.

Yesterday I went to the doctor.

Gave me a prescription but the

drugs are too expensive for me.

- You have electricity?

- Never had!

You bring clients here?

Sometimes.

How much do you get

for a session?

5-10 dollars.

If we make a calculation,

then in a month you make...

I don't go day and night,

only when l have no money.

I understand.

I want to ask you something.

Why did you choose prostitution?

Dear viewers...

Ion, what are you doing?

- What's the matter?

- You shamed us.

We're the talk of the town!

Everybody saw you on TV.

You'll understand

when you grow up!

- If I come to grow older.

- I do understand.

My respects, Maria! It's me!

I came to give you the big news.

We had a great success.

The film was given twice

on the national TV.

And the mayor decided to give

you a three-room at.

- We're not interested! Get lost!

- Costin!

You have to go to the TV station.

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