Import Export
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 26, 2010
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Palisades Tartan
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Maria Hofstatter, Petra Morze, Michael Thomas & Georg Friedrich | |
Directed by | Ulrich Seidl | |
Screenwriting by | Veronika Franz & Ulrich Seidl | |
Director of Photography: | Edward Lachman & Wolfgang Thaler |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Ulrich Seidl's Import Export is an unflinching, at times almost unbearably hard yet moral look at human exploitation.
New York Times
Seidl's film arguably offers the toughest (and toughest to stomach) portrait of individuals tempest-tossed by the currents of the new global economy.
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Village Voice
Rating: 3/4 --
Import Export adds the welcome element of humanity to stand between the cruelty and humor.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 4/5 --
Technically, the sedate yet stunning 35mm camera is there for the ride and somehow never imposes or dominates the content. And the result is a true triumph.
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Boxoffice Magazine
Rating: B+ --
There is never a moment telegraphed in the story...keeping me interested and attentive throughout its 2 hour runtime.
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Reeling Reviews
Rating: 4/5 --
At times it feels like a continuation of Lukas Moodysson's Lilya 4-ever in its catalogue of injustices and humiliations, yet, against the odds, it rewards your endurance.
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Independent (UK)
[I]t continues Seidl's darkly funny and surprisingly poignant fascination with the everyday grind.
A.V. Club
Product Description:
Director Ulrich Seidl's despairing, relentlessly downbeat social drama IMPORT/EXPORT unfolds against the backdrop of contemporary Europe. Olga (Ekateryna Rak) is a single mother struggling to raise her child with a very meager income from her nursing job in a Ukrainian hospital. In desperation, she takes a job as a nude webcam model for an adult entertainment outfit that caters to German men, then quickly decides that life in her town is unbearable, and ultimately leaves her child with her mother, heading west to search for a better life. Meanwhile, in Austria, ne'er-do-well loser Pauli (Paul Hofmann) lives with his mother and his greasy-haired stepfather, Michael (Michael Thomas), to whom he's increasingly indebted. Pauli is training to be a security guard, but gets stripped, then relentlessly beaten and assaulted by a gang of youths. Eventually, Pauli and Michael hit the road together, delivering poker and gumball machines to locations across Eastern Europe, and Michael reveals a truly degenerate side, using his time on the road for a string of sexual encounters with different women. At the same time, Olga makes her way to Austria, enduring a series of occupations including those of au pair, maid, and eventually, charwoman in a geriatric hospital plagued by mistreatment of the elderly.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 63,544
- UPC: 842498000144
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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