Import/Export (2007)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 141 minuten
Country:
Austria / France / Germany
Directed by: Ulrich Seidl
Stars: Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann and Michael Thomas
IMDb score:
7,0 (6.731)
Releasedate: 18 October 2007
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Import/Export plot
Olga is a single mother from Ukraine, Paul an unemployed Austrian. Both are young, physically well-proportioned and, due to various circumstances, unable to shape the world to their will. Olga travels from Eastern to Western Europe in search of work. Paul takes the exact opposite route.
Actors and actresses
Olga
Pauli
Paulis Stiefvater
Paulis Mutter
Olgas Freundin (Ukraine)
Olgas Freundin (Wien)
Schwester Maria
Pfleger Andi
Erich Schlager
Sohn Einfamilienhaus
Reviews & comments
Theunissen
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- 12279 messages
- 5519 votes
Film (in a kind of documentary style) that will stay with me mainly because of some beautiful scenes (including with the webcams) and also some beautiful dialogues such as:
"Put a finger up your ass, put a finger up your ass"
and
"She's 19 and already has a stretched cunt"
In terms of story, I only found the part about Olga (well played by Ekateryna Rak and she didn't look bad either) fascinating and interesting. Had they only filmed from her point of view, the film would have only lasted something like 70 minutes instead of 130 minutes now, which is actually much too long and as a result the film is often long-winded.
Of the story about Paul (well played by Paul Hofmann) I really only found the last part with the 19 year old whore interesting and that was actually not even because of Paul but because of Paul's stepfather (played well and nicely by Michael Thomas) and of course the ukrainian hooker who had quite a nice body with the right proportions.
While the movie didn't really have an ending, it was quite nice, especially the fight between Olga and the jealous nurse.
All in all quite a nice film / documentary, but I would have liked it a lot shorter.
Translated from Dutch · View original
De filosoof
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- 2487 messages
- 1698 votes
The film about the world where East and West come together seems realistic and remains fascinating for the 141 minutes, even if the story has hardly any dramatic development: each scene is fascinating as a mini-drama itself and in any case it is fascinating to see the gray reality of both Ukraine as a Ukrainian immigrant in the West because that parallel world is so close and so far from us at the same time. In that sense, the film feels like a documentary.
The outlined life in Ukraine and of the immigrants at the bottom of Western society is a hard and difficult life full of humiliation and aimed at survival. But there is no overdramatization: you expect, for example, that the beautiful young woman will be sexually abused, but that does not happen. Also no one dies. The well-known dramatic clichés are avoided. At the same time, life at the bottom leads naturally to colorful and even absurd scenes that Seidl paints with pleasure and enlarged. It makes the movie even more interesting.
Translated from Dutch · View original
knusse stoel
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- 3292 messages
- 4356 votes
Film starts a bit unclear in the sense that you have a hard time getting into it. You become acquainted with two worlds and slowly you get to know the characters, each in his own world with its own problems.
The longer we watched the movie, the more we got sucked into it.
A slightly different film, sometimes with recognizable contemporary problems and moments of happiness.
An 8 for the film as a rating.
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