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Import/Export is a film of genre Drama directed by Ulrich Seidl released in USA on 21 may 2007 with Susanne Lothar
Import/Export (2007)
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Add to a movie listImport/Export is an Austrian film by the director Ulrich Seidl from 2007. It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prix - Golden Apricot reward at the Yerevan International Film Festival. The film was shot in Vienna, Ukraine, Romania, the Czech Republic and Slovakia from 2005 until May 2007 on 16mm film. Simultaneously, the film follows a nurse from Ukraine searching for a better life in the West and an unemployed security guard from Austria heading East for the same reason.
^ "Festival de Cannes: Import Export". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-12-19.
Synopsis
Olga is a Ukrainian woman from Eastern Ukraine, who lives with her mother and has a child. Her job as a nurse does not pay well enough for her to support herself and her baby, and she gets a second job doing internet pornography. She eventually leaves her homeland and travels to Vienna, Austria where she finds a job as a housekeeper at a rich family's home, where she also lives. However, the woman of the family suspects her of stealing and sacks her. She is then employed as a cleaner at a geriatric hospital. There, she strikes up a relationship with an elderly man named Erich and he asks her to marry him. She accepts, as she knows this will gain her Austrian citizenship. However, Erich dies of a heart attack before they can marry.Actors
Susanne Lothar
(Paulis Mutter)
Maria Hofstätter
(Schwester Maria)
Brigitte Kren
(Pauls Mutter)
Georg Friedrich
(Pfleger Andi)
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