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Lynne Adams | ... |
Ellen
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Zoe Aggeliki | ... |
Susan Tagarov
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Isabelle Blais | ... |
Helena
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Céline Bonnier | ... |
Sophie
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David Boutin | ... |
Frederick
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Emma Campbell | ... |
Samantha
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Robert Carlyle | ... |
Sergei
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Dawn Ford | ... |
Helena's Aunt
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Rémy Girard | ... |
Viktor
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Anna Hopkins | ... |
Katerina
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Mark Antony Krupa | ... |
Andrei
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Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse | ... |
Annie
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Laurence Leboeuf | ... |
Nadia
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Michael Sorvino | ... |
Mischa
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Mira Sorvino | ... |
Kate
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Donald Sutherland | ... |
Meehan
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Vlasta Vrana | ... |
Tommy
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Storyline
Hundreds of thousands of young women have vanished from their everyday
lives-forced by violence into a hellish existence of brutality and
prostitution. They're a profitable commodity in the multi-billion-dollar
industry of modern slavery. The underworld calls them human traffic...
Written by
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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Everyday, young girls are bought and sold. See more »Certificate:
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
24 October 2005 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Human Trafficking See more »Box Office
Budget:
$15,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Kate Morozov: The devil's not without his charms.
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Several actors have doubled themselves in the French version so Isabelle Blais, Céline Bonnier, Rémy Girard, & Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse. See more »Goofs
In what is supposed to be Washington, they show a train with the symbol for AMT (Agence Métropolitaine de Montréal), a suburban rail network connecting the greater Montreal metro area (the 450 area code) with Montreal, which proves that this scene was filmed in the Montreal area (not Washington). See more »Quotes
Helena: Just hearing Sergei's voice used to make me nauseous. But then, you know, we were in the same room, talking. And despite all this hell he put me through, you know... I would catch myself almost forgetting who he was.Kate Morozov: The devil's not without his charms.
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I was a reporter for over 2 years in Russia, and have seen the monstrosity of these criminals and awesome beauty, sweetness, romanticism, and eroticism of the girls there- who are brought up to defer to and please men. In a place where people would make $20 a month, girls would jump at any Western job, which could give them a real life. Lured by an imaginary secretarial or maid job in Europe, they would have documents taken and quickly be raped and broken into total submission. Huge numbers are sent to Israel, where the government ignores problem. But all over the world, Russian girls are wanted by traffickers and johns for their great beauty, literacy, and skills.
An incredible NPR report explained how young girls are shipped to filthy Mexican nightmare brothels where they have to service 30-50 clients a day, then smuggled into America, where they are handed off to other pimps at Disneyland. By this time they are so terrorized and shattered that they don't even try to get away.
A Russian father improbably joins the traffickers to find and rescue his daughter.
If anything this docudrama soft-peddles the horrors- but TV couldn't take the unvarnished truth. It should be mandatory viewing for every American, especially all law enforcement. This hideous crime should be treated as seriously as genocide, since it is. As Sorvino says in the end, the shelve life of these girls before they are used up, killed, or diseased is 4 years, and some 800,000 are trafficked every year- several Darfurs, Bosnias, Kosovos, Iraqs put together.