Buy Bye Beauty

Jan 31 2001 N/A 1h 24m
Documentary

Buy Bye Beauty is a 2001 documentary film by Swedish director and performance artist Pål Hollender. The film is about the way Latvian sex industry and its being fueled by businessmen and sex tourists from Sweden visiting Riga. The film was shot in Riga in July 2000. The narration of the film is in English, with interviews conducted in Russian and Latvian.

Plot

This is a highly controversial documentary in which the filmmaker, Pål Hollender, interviews six prostitutes in Riga, Latvia, and at the end of the film pays three of the women $200 each and proceeds to have sexual intercourse with them - on camera! The purported purpose of this film is to show how women in former communist Europe are exploited in the sex industry by rich tourists. "Buy, Bye, Beauty" provoked massive protests in Latvia, and indeed the whole Baltic region, when it was first released in 2001.

Written by

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Directed by

Pål Hollender

Cast

Andrejs, Diana, Andris Grinbergs

Crew

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Production Countries

Sweden

Production Companies

Svenska Filminstitutet, Pål Hollender

Languages

Latviešu, English

Awards

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Scores
# of Votes
98
Average Rating
3.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
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