Oliver Czeslik

The thrill is the simplicity, the fun is the speed, the triumph is the money. Samy and Lollo, lucky brokers of the 90s, are looking for alternative stock markets. But the fat years are over and the money isn’t lying in the streets anymore. The suspicious couple leaves the right path. Wrath isn’t tarrying: Russians who shoot with live ammunition need to be calmed. But calming things have to be gotten somehow, too. The couple thinks about things that don’t make sense, and voila: the money is waiting. The only problem: it isn’t waiting for them, but for Jews. Only solution: become a Jew. Paul, the dubious personification of the cliché of a Jew, has to help them. Slowly, Samy and Lollo start to identify with their roles, become closer to the desired goal and are ready for the most audacious fraud of all time. But where Jewish accounts lie fallow, Nazis are in play. He who looks Jewish doesn’t have to be Jewish. And vice versa. The game of confusion has started.
Easy money is a black comedy about false and real identities and the question of whether there is a Jewish nose.
“Of course, the game about the dormant accounts is important – but underlying everything, the supposed topic of Easy Money is only alluded to, it is only a pretence: Czeslik uses it to make the treatment of Jews after the second World War normal, to show something far more fundamental: identities are exchangeable; everyone is who he feels to be.” (Südkurier)