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Import/Export (2007)

Drama | 141 minutes
3,51 273 votes

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 (6.422)

Releasedate: 18 October 2007

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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.

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Paulis Stiefvater

Paulis Mutter

Olgas Freundin (Ukraine)

Olgas Freundin (Wien)

Schwester Maria

Pfleger Andi

Erich Schlager

Sohn Einfamilienhaus

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avatar van Theunissen

Theunissen

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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.

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avatar van De filosoof

De filosoof

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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.

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knusse stoel

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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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