Human trafficking

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Movie
German title Human trafficking
Original title Human trafficking
Country of production Canada , USA
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 176 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Christian Duguay
script Carol Doyle ,
Agatha Dominik
production Christian Duguay,
Irene Litinsky ,
Michael Prupas
music Normand Corbeil
camera Christian Duguay
cut Gaétan Huot ,
Sylvain Lebel
occupation

Human Trafficking is a two-part Canadian-US television miniseries about global human trafficking . Director of the dramatic film from the year 2005 was Christian Duguay .

action

A minor girl is sold to a client against her will. Full of disgust and desperation, she throws herself out of the window and dies in a crash on a car roof.

The waitress Helena lives in Prague with her little daughter. She is courted by Frederick, a guest, until she believes in his feelings and travels abroad to see him. Her passport is immediately taken from her. Like other girls, she is humiliated, beaten up and abused to break her will.

Sophie is recruiting girls in Ukraine who want to become photo models. Among other things, the sixteen-year-old Nadia is selected. Her father Viktor wants her to finish school, but Nadia wants to go abroad, writes a farewell letter and runs away from home. You feel like Helena. Both are forced into prostitution in the US . In the event of an attempt to escape, the family members who remained at home are threatened. The girls are made docile through fear, pain, alcohol and other drugs . As sex slaves, they each have twelve customers a day. Sergei, the head of the tug ring, makes $ 1.3 million a month in profit. Trafficking is a lucrative business.

Annie, a twelve-year-old American girl, is kidnapped in Manila, Philippines. Your desperate parents are powerless. A poor Filipino sold his young daughter to the human traffickers. She later developed meningitis and was killed.

In Russia, Nadia's father is investigating. He lets himself be hired by the smuggling gang and travels to the USA with the next delivery of girls. Meanwhile, Nadia tries in vain to flee. The guardian who fell asleep is stabbed to death by Sergei as a punishment. Helena and Nadia witness the deed. Nadia is brutally raped for a sex tape. When Viktor sees it by chance, he vomits. But finally he finds his daughter and can cheer her up, but not free her.

Several cases of dead girls on tourist visas are under investigation by the US authorities. Kate Morozov (Mira Sorvino) is hired by her manager, Bill Meehan (Donald Sutherland). Helena is freed from the brothel by a police raid. She is allowed to call her little daughter and thus saves her from the gangsters who want to use her as leverage. Helena comes as a witness to a house under police protection. But a lawyer reveals it to Sergei, and Helena is shot by a sniper just as she is pointing out a well-known advertising sign to Kate. Kate recognizes the same sign in front of a building under surveillance, in which she suspects a brothel. Sergei's doctor gets a phone number from him for an erotic vacation in the Philippines. There he is placed in the brothel where Annie and many other children are being held. He is arrested by the police during a raid and betrays Sergei.

Kate pretends to be a Russian mail order bride on the Internet in order to infiltrate the gang. When she is in the building with the girls, the police attack. Sergei is shot and Sophie is arrested. Viktor and Nadia are reunited as a family. Some children, including Annie, were taken away beforehand and placed in an ISO container ; intended for transport to Arabia. You will be saved too. All get their passports back.

Kate gives a lecture on the modern sex trade. Around 800,000 people are sold worldwide every year. After the sale of drugs and weapons, human trafficking is the most profitable criminal business.

Reviews

"The (television) film approaches its topic with commitment and skill, but clearly suffers from the wrongly cast main character who does not know how to convince."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

  • The film was nominated twice for the 2006 Golden Globe Awards , Donald Sutherland for Best Actor in a TV Miniseries and Mira Sorvino for Best Actress in a TV Miniseries.
  • At the 2006 Primetime Emmy Awards , there were three nominations, namely for Donald Sutherland for Best Actor, for Normand Corbeil for Best Music and for Robert Carlyle for Best Supporting Actor.
  • In 2006 there were three nominations from the Directors Guild of Canada , namely for Christian Duguay as best director, for Guy Lalande for best production design and for film as best television film or television miniseries.

Background information

The film was shot in Montréal , Québec, Canada.

There are English-language DVDs with a length of around 180 minutes in NTSC format.

The German-language DVDs were released in April 2008. German script and dubbing director: Frank Preissler-Berlin.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Human Trafficking . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2007 (PDF; test number: 112 600 DVD).
  2. ↑ Human Trafficking. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used