Directed by:
Ulrich SeidlCast:
Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Georg Friedrich, Susanne Lothar, Maria Hofstätter, Dirk Stermann, Brigitte Kren, Natalya Baranova, Michael Thomas, Thomas Nash (more)VOD (1)
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Import/Export tells two stories which move in diametrically opposed directions. Olga is a young nurse and mother living in the Ukraine who, wanting more from life, seeks an escape from her low-paying job. She finds the answer in the west, in Austria, a land with opportunity and without crippling poverty. Paul is a young Austrian in debt and without work or meaning – but he finds opportunity in the east, on a job with his stepfather setting up video gambling machines in the Ukraine. East and West, Ukraine and Austria – two individual fates, two opposite directions. (Accent Film Entertainment)
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A tough life with merciless rules can also be filmed with invention and wit, in a way that captivates the audience and leaves them with something in the end. Ulrich Seidl, however, turns it into pseudo- intellectual bullshit that is uninteresting and boring for the audience and completely unnecessary for the art of cinema.
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