Import Export (2007)
Coming at November 9, 2007 in theaters.
Drama
Import/Export is drama 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.
It is winter and people are freezing. It is so in Ukraine. The east looks like the west, the west looks like the east. In this atmosphere, two stories emerge in a way that, at first glance, does not seem to relate them. One story is import: it starts in Ukraine and goes to Austria. The other is export: it starts in Austria and ends in Ukraine. The first introduces Olga, a young nurse and mother. She wants more out of life, she wants to leave the city, to leave the country. She decides to go to Austria.
In that foreign country, she finds work and then loses it. She starts as a housekeeper and ends as a cleaner in a geriatric hospital. The other story is about Paul, a young Austrian. He finally gets a job as a security guard, but gets fired almost immediately. His stepfather takes him to Ukraine to work on the installation of betting machines. Import Export deals with sex and death, living and dying, winners and losers, power and impotence, and it’s about how to professionally clean a stuffed fox’s teeth.
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Writers: Veronika Franz, Ulrich Seidl
Stars: Ekateryna Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas, Natalja Baranova, Natalja Epuraneu, Maria Hofstätter, Georg Friedrich
►Cast
| Ekateryna Rak | ► | Olga |
| Lidiya Oleksandrivna Savka | ► | Olgas Mutter |
| Oksana Ivanivna Sklyarenko | ► | Olgas Baby |
| Dmytro Andriyovich Gachkov | ► | Olgas Bruder |
| Natalya Baranova | ► | Olgas Freundin in der Ukraine |
| Miloslava Kubkova | ► | Web Sex Hausmeisterin |
| Katka Ackermannová | ► | Web Sex Girl |
| Lucie Radlová | ► | Web Sex Girl |
| Zdenka Tothová | ► | Web Sex Girl |
| Natalja Epureanu | ► | Olgas Freundin in Österreich |
| Gerhard Komarek | ► | Putzfirma Instruktor |
| Herta Wonesch | ► | Frau mit ausgestopftem Fuchs |
| Petra Morzé | ► | Mutter Einfamilienhaus |
| Lisa Hubbauer | ► | Tochter Einfamilienhaus |
| Ronald Volny | ► | Aufsicht Reinigungsfrauen Geriatrie |
| Maria Hofstätter | ► | Schwester Maria |
| Georg Friedrich | ► | Pfleger Andi |
| Erich Finsches | ► | Herr Schlager |
| Gerhard Fuchs | ► | Alleinunterhalter Geriatrie |
| Margarete Schlamm | ► | Patientin Geriatrie |
| Sissy Nöster | ► | Patientin Geriatrie |
| Katharina Riedinger | ► | Patientin Geriatrie |
| Olga Macho | ► | Patientin Geriatrie |
| Magdalena Vorlaufert | ► | Patientin Geriatrie |
| Christine Ewal | ► | Patientin Geriatrie |
| Karoline Friedrich | ► | Patientin Geriatrie |
| Herta Sezemsky | ► | Patientin Geriatrie |
| Gertrude Strommer | ► | Patientin Geriatrie |
| Hans Buxbaum | ► | Patient Geriatrie |
| Josef Haller | ► | Patient Geriatrie |
| Walter Neukirch | ► | Patient Geriatrie |
| Karl Schandl | ► | Patient Geriatrie |
| Rudolf Schneider | ► | Patient Geriatrie |
| Nikolaus Tscholitsch | ► | Patient Geriatrie |
| Alexander Kato | ► | Patient Geriatrie |
| Paul Hofmann | ► | Paul |
| Peter Linduska | ► | Security Ausbilder |
| Marco Dobianer | ► | Securitytruppe |
| Serdar Caliskan | ► | Securitytruppe |
| Thomas Nash | ► | Securitytruppe |
| Harald Huschka | ► | Securitytruppe |
| Lukas Prusa | ► | Securitytruppe |
| Gerald Uwira | ► | Securitytruppe |
| Michael Komzak | ► | Securitytruppe |
| Christina York | ► | Pauls Freundin |
| Michael Thomas | ► | Pauls Stiefvater |
| Brigitte Kren | ► | Pauls Mutter |
| Ramazan Akpinar | ► | Türkenbande |
| Cemkaan Akbulut | ► | Türkenbande |
| Sinan Saridogan | ► | Türkenbande |
| Akin Öztürk | ► | Türkenbande |
| Martin Fiedler | ► | Schuldner |
| Alexander Sykora | ► | Schuldenentreiber |
| Dirk Stermann | ► | Job Coach Arbeitsamt |
| Miliza Jovic | ► | Frau am Arbeitsamt |
| Christofer Pucher | ► | Automatenhändler |
| Marta Totova | ► | Frau im Cafe in der Slowakei |
| Alexander Mroc | ► | Roma |
| Ján Horváth | ► | Roma |
| Dezider Hricko | ► | Roma |
| Jozef Balog | ► | Roma |
| Mária Mrocová | ► | Roma Girl |
| Nikola Mrocová | ► | Roma Girl |
| Diana | ► | Mädchen in der Disco |
| Anastasia Sergeyeva | ► | Prostituierte Hotelzimmer |
| Johannes Nussbaum | ► | Johannes |