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Import/Export
Drama - 2007
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A nurse from Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a meaning in life...
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Details

Runtime:
135 min
Release date:
18 Oct 2007
Country:
AT, UA, DE
Languages:
German, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Slovak
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins & 2 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

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The mood is as dismal as the weather in Import/Export, by Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
31 Jul 2009
fresh:
Ulrich Seidl's Import Export is an unflinching, at times almost unbearably hard yet moral look at human exploitation.
– Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
31 Jul 2009
fresh:
Import Export demands we contemplate the horror and the beauty of existence in equal measure.
– Keith Uhlich,
Time Out New York,
30 Jul 2009
fresh:
Seidl's film arguably offers the toughest (and toughest to stomach) portrait of individuals tempest-tossed by the currents of the new global economy.
– Scott Foundas,
Village Voice,
21 Jul 2009
fresh:
Seidl's canny mix of professional and non-professional actors delivers a series of performances, major and minor, of genuinely heart-tugging truth and heartening humanity.
– Dave Calhoun,
Time Out,
13 Oct 2007
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