Import/Export chronicles two different migrations: a young woman who leaves behind her mother and young child in the Ukraine to begin a new life as a nurse in Vienna; and a headstrong young security guard called Paul who leaves Vienna to accompany his stepfather on a trip delivering gumball machines in Eastern Europe. Blackly funny filled with striking images shot by cameraman Ed Lachman (Erin Brockovich Far From Heaven) and featuring extraordinarily potent performances from its cast Import/Export is the new film from director Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days). Hailed by critics... as a startling and bold film it is without doubt recent European cinema's most provocative and audacious investigation of the post-Soviet universe and the new relations between East and West. [show more]
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Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl directs this stark and unflinching portrait of the effects on two people of the ebb and flow of global capitalism. The film tells the stories of two immigrants: Olga (Ekateryna Rak), a Ukrainian nurse and former prostitute who emigrates to Vienna in search of a better life, and Paul (Paul Hofmann), an unemployed Austrian security guard with borderline special needs who heads East, partly to find work and partly to escape from the local gangsters to whom he owes money. Along with his stepfather, Michael (Michael Thomas), Paul travels to the frozen, desolate housing estates of Ukraine and gets a job installing slot-machines. Meanwhile, Olga gets a cleaning job in a hospital, and finds friendship of a sort with one of the patients, Erich (Erich Finsches).
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