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Based on a story by Friedrich Duerenmatt, The Visit poses the question of morality's subservience to the dollar (or, in this case, the dinar). A wealthy Yugoslavian widow (Ingrid Bergman) returns after twenty years to the small town from which she had been driven, disgraced and pregnant, by the perjured testimony of her lover, Serge Miller. Now, she offers to free the town and its inhabitants from their poverty at a stroke--in return for Miller's life. After hearing their first indignant refusal, she settles down to wait...
Marshal Tito's government took a step toward making its money honest. It announced last week that the Yugoslav dinar, pegged at a phony rate of 50 to $1 while its free market value dropped as low as 700 to $1, was being devalued to a rate of 300 to $1. The cut came after two months of conference with a visiting mission of the 5O-nation International Monetary Fund, which advised Yugoslavia that its best chance of trading with the West would come from cleaning up its currency...
...story broke as soon as the King and Mrs. Simpson began to go shopping in small Yugoslavian waterfront towns, she speaking for him in German which some of the villagers understand.* At Sibenik the King and Mrs. Simpson picked out three dolls, total cost of which was only 15 dinars. His Majesty paid with a 20 dinar bill (50?) and Mrs. Simpson said in German, "Keep the change." The King also bought a Yugoslavian fisherman's coarse shirt, put it on and at night went fishing with a lantern for zubach, a species of carp. Around him hovered more...