It Happened Just Before ( Kurz davor ist es passiert )

It Happened Just Before (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Kurz davor ist es passiert
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
72 min + 20 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Anja Salomonowitz

Written By:
Anja Salomonowitz

Actors:
Anja Salomonowitz

Synopsis:

Though Austrian filmmaker Anja Salomonowitz's documentary It Happened Just Before explores the grave and sober issue of global white-slave trafficking, Salomonowitz approached her material in an unusual manner. She collected harrowing real-life stories about the topic -- tales of manipulation, exploitation, violation, sadism, and blackmail. She then interwove the tales into a documentary screenplay, and had each of five everyday individuals with different occupations read one of the narratives -- a customs officer, a female consul, a brothel barkeep, etc. As each participant reads of the events that transpired in the type of locale that he or she frequents, Salomonowitz runs a stylized sequence that depicts banal events unfolding in that location -- enabling us to imagine the described terrors unfolding in the milieu before us.

An artistic confrontation with the global phenomenon of trafficking in women. The stories are not retold by actresses but by people
who could have a connection to events and places in the film: a customs officer, a villager, a bar-keeper in a bordello, a woman diplomat and a taxi driver.

Considers the issue of the global problem of trafficking in women, based on real narratives by women who were caught up in it, interspersed with speculative scenarios.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 06 October, 2009.

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