Fresh
The mood is as dismal as the weather in Import/Export, by Austrian auteur Ulrich Seidl.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
Overview
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...
Director and cast
- Ulrich Seidl Director
- Ekateryna Rak as Olga
- Paul Hofmann as Pauli
- Michael Thomas as Paulis Stiefvater
- Susanne Lothar as Paulis Mutter
- Natalija Baranova as Olgas Freundin (Ukraine)
- Natalja Epureanu as Olgas Freundin (Wien)
- Maria Hofstätter as Schwester Maria
- Georg Friedrich as Pfleger Andi
- Erich Finsches as Erich Schlager
- Johannes Nussbaum as Sohn Einfamilienhaus
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
84%
Tomatometer
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
Fresh
Import Export demands we contemplate the horror and the beauty of existence in equal measure.
Keith Uhlich, Time Out New York
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
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
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