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Ulrich Seidl (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: DVD
3.9 out of 5 stars 21 customer reviews
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  • Directors: Ulrich Seidl
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language: English, German
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Trinity Production Co. Ltd.
  • DVD Release Date: 26 Jan. 2009
  • Run Time: 141 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B001L4I2DQ
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Powerful and rewarding, filled with striking imagery 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). A tour de force journey through modern-day Europe, Import Export tells two parallel stories: Olga (Ekateryna Rak) who leaves behind her mother and young child in the Ukraine to seek out a better life in Vienna; and a headstrong young security guard (Paul Hofmann) who leaves Vienna to accompany his stepfather on a trip delivering gumball machines in Eastern Europe. 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.

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5.0 out of 5 starsa fresh view on ordinary Europeans
By Ina27 on 29 May 2011
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
A Ukrainian nurse and an Austrian security officer in their 20s face brutality of life when their career/work stops bringing income. They are forced to move to 'the other side of Europe'. With their adventures we learn to what degree Eastern Europe is deprived and Western Europe privileged.
An alternative film title could read 'What the news will never tell you about how the other half lives'.

Let not the DVD cover deceive you: this is not a film about sex trafficking or every day life of a local brother. This is certainly not a new 'Trainspotting'. This is a bitter view on Europe as we do not know it bombarded by media on one hand and stereotypes on another.

The film showcased lives of ordinary Western and Eastern Europe citizens trapped by circumstances. Both characters are not willing to be life victims but they are not quite able to find their luck.
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5.0 out of 5 stars21st Century Social Commentary
By Glen1975 on 21 Jun. 2015
Format: DVD
This is a very bleak film. it does not make for easy viewing. It is an exploration in to how young and old people can become so degraded by others because of the circumstances in which they exist. It is a film about vulnerability and exploitation; how people become all the vulnerable in places which are not their homes. What comes across in the film, however, is the strong sense of humanity and warmth which is personalised in the role of Olga (played with great conviction by Ekateryan Rak)) who is a qualified nurse but has to leave Ukraine because she is repeatedly underpaid for the job she has to do. She eventually finds a job as a cleaner in a nursing home, she gives much more to her job than cleaning and here we experience some extremely poignant moments. Olga's role contrasts starkly with that of Pauli (Paul Hoffman) who helps his lecherous step-father export some rather clapped out gaming machines to Eastern Europe. It is on such an excursion we see Pauli's step-father buying the dignity of a young Ukrainian woman; this scene is rather unpleasant and quite long. Is it really necessary? Were all the scenes of sexual exploitation really necessary in this film? The film takes us over the precipice as to what horrible things money can buy. This stands starkly with Olga, who has nothing but her humanity, gives it to the people who need it most. An extremely bleak and challenging film.
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4.0 out of 5 starsImport/Export
By Mr. S. J. Andrews on 9 Jun. 2009
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Just to counter the somewhat negative reviews of this film I wanted to say that I thought it was brilliant.

I get that this is a film that will never appeal to everyone's taste but it's one of the darkest, bleak, and at times surprisingly funny films I've seen in a long time, I can't recommend it enough. It does run slow but that's the whole point, life is desperately harsh at times and this is a brutally honest film that holds no punches when commenting on existence and the pursuit of doing the right thing in the most soul destroying of circumstances. The cinematography is also worth a mention as it's first class!

More and more foreign films are hitting the mark when it comes to emotional impact with amazing films coming from countries like France, Spain and Germany. I now look forward to see what other exports we get from Russia!
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4.0 out of 5 starsMigrants, go home! What is a home?
By Antioquia on 18 July 2009
Format: DVD
Another outstanding film from Ulrich Seidl, director of Dog Days. It's a fly-on-the-wall look at the lives of Olga, a Ukranian nurse who finally gives up and moves to Austria when the hospital can't pay her salary (imagine your boss giving you 30% of your salary at the end of the month - in Ukraine and elsewhere that's not uncommon) and an Austrian security guard and his step-father who hawk gumball machines around Ukraine. The camera is unflinching in showing the detail of hard lives and the scramble for a financial existence. Overall the film is engrossing as an observational work with some striking scenes. It's not a story in the sense that there isn't an ending or a "meaning" and like Dog Days it's bleak but despite that it has huge energy and stays with you till the end.
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn uncomfortable reality
By Paul Duffin on 6 Jan. 2014
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The subject and protagonists of this film have been adequately described in other reviews, so I won't repeat them, suffice it to say that they are the everyday stories of desperate people that we, the fortunate audience, so rarely see. These are subjects that have been covered before - the characters are instantly recognizable and in other hands might have been pointlessly added to the extensive list of exploitative cliches that we have seen so many times before. Instead, the dedication, preparation and execution by Ulrich Seidl provides an insightful, if deeply uncomfortable, portrayal of a depressing alternate reality that we all know exists, but (hopefully) have not experienced. This is a film that mixes professional actors with amateurs, mixes script with improvisation and is filmed entirely in genuine locations - right down to a geriatric ward filled with genuine (dying) patients. This is a film that is the absolute antithesis of Hollywood saccharine, it is grounded in the most painfully and convincingly observed human drama and in doing so makes for frequently difficult watching, but that authenticity is what makes it an entirely worthwhile experience. Rarely can a film truly transport you into a world that is so foreign and ugly; this film takes you into several and is convincing in every one.
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1.0 out of 5 starsDo Not Buy the BluRay of this title

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