Import/Export (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.5/10   

Director:

Ulrich Seidl

Escritores:

Veronika Franz (writer)
Ulrich Seidl (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

11 octubre 2007 (Czech Republic)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. |

Plot Keywords:

Nurse | Security Guard | Sexual Dominance | Cleaning Lady | Stepfather Adult Stepson Relationship

Premios:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A Film That Should Elicit A Response From The Viewer

Reparto

Ekateryna Rak	...	Olga
Paul Hofmann	...	Pauli
Michael Thomas	...	Michael
Maria Hofstätter	...	Schwester Maria
Georg Friedrich	...	Pfleger Andi
Natalya Baranova	...	Olgas Freundin - Ukraine (as Natalja)
Natalja Epureanu	...	Olgas Freundin
Erich Finsches	...	Erich Schlager
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Herbert Fritsch	...	Paulis Vater
Susanne Lothar	...	Paulis Mutter
Petra Morzé	...	Mother in Family Home
Thomas Nash
Dirk Stermann	...	Ausbilder für Putzfrauen

Duración:

141 min | South Korea:123 min | Germany:135 min

País:

Austria

Idioma:

Alemán | Slovak | Ruso | Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.66 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby SR

Clasificación:

Czech Republic:15 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:III | Sweden:15 | Netherlands:12 | South Korea:15 | UK:18 | Australia:R | France:-16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Vienna, Austria

Compañía:

Ulrich Seidl Film Produktion GmbH

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en "Metropolis: Cannes 2007 - Special" (2007)

A Film That Should Elicit A Response From The Viewer

No matter what you think about a film like Import/Export, you have to have some kind of reaction to it. It is an unsettling, bleak look at a couple of lives that the viewer will rarely think about unless confronted with in a film like this. The story takes place in both Ukraine and in Austria and focuses on 2 lives of very different people who share a similar circumstance of being at the end of the line in the place that they live in. Both seek change and their circumstances take very different shapes and fates but share a similar intention, to find a better life.

The director and writer give us little hope in their depiction of these 2 lives and how their environments constantly conspire to either keep them down or challenge their will to survive and change. It is a story at once about Eastern Europe and a story about the world's 'lower classes' and their monumental struggle against inertia and their past. It is a movie filled with images, humor, highs and lows, and, graphic scenes of sexual play that all add to the base quality of the human experience that exists not only in Eastern Europe, but, many place in the world today. Human beings have created incredible technology and yet there is still so much ignorance, cruelty, and, general meanness in the world. A rough film told with a keen eye toward a subtle message.