Import Export

Ulrich Seidl

IndieLisboa 2008 •

Austria, Fiction, 2007, 135′

Import: Olga, a young nurse in the Ukraine, dreams of a better life in the West. She emigrates to Austria and becomes a cleaning lady in a geriatric hospital, where an 82 year old patient proposes to her. Export: Paul, a young Austrian security guard in search of a reason to get up in the morning, heads east with his stepfather to try his luck. They end up in the Ukraine, where alcohol and girls are abundant.