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Buy Bye Beauty

Jan 1, 2001

1h 24m

★ 2.0

Overview

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.

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Documentary

Production Companies

Pål Hollender

Svenska Filminstitutet

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Cast

Himself

Pål Hollender

Author, artist

Andris Grinbergs

Photographer

Ralf Vulis

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