Europe – Asia 2008 one on netflix

Somewhere in the Urals, between the European and the Asian parts of Russia, there is a stele called “Europe-Asia”. Professional swindlers have taken a liking to this place. For several days in a row a wedding is taking place by the roadside. They hide under the veil of the bride, in the costumes of the groom and witnesses, cynically taking in turn every traveler. Fraudsters “spin” the travelers for cash gifts to the newlyweds, generously feeding the guests with diluted alcohol. Under the guidance of the “mother of the bride” the group plays out incredibly funny criminal plays, and their spectators, accomplices and victims are PR people and political technologists, Chinese and Hungarians, policemen and bandits, beggar nomad children and, of course, foreign tourists nostalgic for the once abandoned Russia….