Sex Traffic (2004)

Sex Traffic (2004) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
180 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
David Yates

Written By:
Abi Morgan

Actors:
Wendy Crewson ..... Madeleine Harlsburgh
John Simm ..... Daniel Appleton
Anamaria Marinca ..... Elena Visinescu
Maria Popistasu ..... Vera Visinescu
Chris Potter ..... Tom Harlsburgh
Len Cariou ..... Magnus Herzoff
Maury Chaykin ..... Ernie Dwight
Luke Kirby ..... Callum Tate
Robert Joy ..... Major James Brooke
Rodica Negrea ..... Luiba Visinescu
Carlotta Natoli ..... Lola Carizonne
Barbara Eve Harris ..... Audrey Duponte
Andre Prisecaru ..... Alex (Lexi)
Zoltan Butuc ..... Petre Danielski
Elina Lowensohn ..... Maria Danielski

Synopsis:

Boston based Kernwell Industries is an American defense contractor. One of those contracts is to deploy 3,000 peacekeepers to the International Peacekeeping Coalition's work in the Balkans. Because of the near epidemic problem of sex trafficking of young Balkan women, Kernwell has decided to support the charity, Worldwide Federation Against Forced Migration. Kernwell's head of charities is Madeleine Harlsburg, the wife of the company's CEO, Tom Harlsburg. Although it does not have a pristine reputation as a good social corporate citizen, Kernwell hits a bigger public relations problem when it is learned that one of those 3,000 peacekeepers was caught trying to buy the services of a teen-aged prostitute in Sarajevo. Although not named to the media, that person is Sergeant Callum Tate, who swears he was trying to save that woman. In reality, Tate has evidence of a larger conspiracy of sex trafficking. Regardless of the truth or falsehood of accusations, some within Kernwell will do whatever they require to protect their organization's brand. Meanwhile, the Moldovan Visinescu sisters - Lena and Vara - believe they are moving to London with Vara's boyfriend Alexi to lead a better life to be able to send money back to support their mother and Lena's infant son. However, they soon learn that Alexi has instead sold them into a white slavery ring. Speak For Freedom, a London-based non-profit organization, works in many areas including monitoring sex trafficking in order to assist authorities in stopping it. Daniel Appleton, one of its employees, gets involved in trying to save the Visinescus.

This two-part drama focuses on the global business trafficking young women into forced prostitution in European and American cities. Elena and Vara, two sisters from Europe's poorest country Moldova, leave their village together with Vara's fiancé Alex to start a new and better life in London. Some days later, they realize the bitter reality: they were sold to traffickers who force the young women to work as prostitutes in several states in the Balkans. The reverberations of their story show the involvement of big business in America and corrupt international peacekeepers in Europe...

The story of two young Moldovan sisters, kidnapped and trafficked through Romania, Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Italy to the dark side of London, betrayed by pimps and police, and fighting for their lives. The reverberations of their story are explosive, exposing far-reaching corruption that implicates big business in America and international peacekeeping forces in Europe alike.

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