Import/Export Austria
2006, 135min.
Prod./Dir.: Ulrich Seidl, Script: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz, Dir. of Phot.: Ed Lachman, Wolfgang Thaler, Art.Dir.: Andreas Donhauser, Renate Martin:, Sound: Ekkehart Baumung, Edit.: Christof Schertenleib.
Cast: Maria Hofstätter, Petra Morzé, Ekaterina Rak, Nataljia Baranova, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas.
Two individual fates move in opposite directions. Olga, a nurse from the Ukraine, abandons her family to look for a better life in the West and ends up working as a cleaning woman in a geriatric ward in Austria. Paul, an unemployed security guard from Vienna, is looking a reason to get up in the mornings and heads East with his stepfather, ending up in the Ukraine. Two young people on the move, eager to start a new life, confronted with a rough reality. Two stories about the pursuit of happiness and material advantages, about the darker sides of sexuality and death, and about the difficulties of cleaning the teeth of a stuffed fox.
| Seidl, Ulrich  Ulrich Seidl (born 24.11.1952, Vienna, Austria)
Ulrich Seidl came to film rather late, by cooperating on the script for Michael Glawogger Krieg in Wien (1989). He then focused on documentaries portraying intimate aspects of human life in a disturbing way; these brought Seidl to the attention of international critics and audiences. Several years in the making, his feature debut Dog Daystook the Grand Special Jury Prize at the 2001 Venice IFF.
Filmography
Einsvierzig (1980), Der Ball (1982), Look 84 (1984), Good News: Von Kolporteuren, toten Hunden und anderen Wienern (1990), Loss Is to Be Expected (Mit Verlust ist zu rechnen, 1992), The Last Real Men (Letzten Männer, Die, 1994), Animal Love (Tierische Liebe, 1995), Bilder einer Ausstellung (1996, TV), Busenfreund, Der (TV,1997), Spass ohne Grenzen (1998), Models (1999), Dog Days (Hundstage, 2001), State of the Nation: Austria in Six Chapters (Zur Lage: Österreich in sechs Kapiteln, 2002), Jesus, Du weisst (2003), Brothers, Let Us Be Merry (2006), Import/Export (2006).
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