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Buy Bye Beauty (2001)

Buy Bye Beauty poster
Directed by
Pål Hollender
Genre
documentary film
Country
Sweden
Runtime
1h 24m
Rating
2.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows Swedish businessmen and sex tourists as they travel to Riga, Latvia. It shows how they fuel the local sex industry and interviews people involved in the trade.

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What happens

Buy Bye Beauty is a 2001 documentary film by Swedish director and performance artist Pål Hollender. The film is about the 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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