Movie: Buy Bye Beauty

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Pål Hollender
Pål Hollender

Himself

Andris Grinbergs
Andris Grinbergs

Author, artist

Ralf Vulis
Ralf Vulis

Photographer

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    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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    2001-01-01

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