Sex Traffic
| Movie | |
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| German title | Sex Traffic |
| Original title | Sex Traffic |
| Country of production | UK , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 180 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Yates |
| script | Abi Morgan |
| production | Derek Wax |
| music | Jonathan Goldsmith |
| camera | Chris Seager |
| cut | Mark Day |
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Sex Traffic is a British - Canadian film drama from the year 2004 . Directed by David Yates and written by Abi Morgan .
action
Sisters Elena and Vara Visinescu grow up in Moldova and dream of a prosperous life in London . Elena is a single mother of one son and works in a factory with her naive, younger sister. Through the mediation of a friend of Vara, the two of them get to human traffickers in Chișinău who do not keep their promises, plane tickets and a secure existence in Great Britain. Elena and Vara are stripped of their passports and sold to a club in Belgrade , where they are raped and forced to work as prostitutes. As Vara becomes discouraged and indulges in drugs, Elena tries to protect her younger sister. She succeeds in informing her mother about her whereabouts through a customer's cell phone. The human traffickers use Elena's son as leverage and, to be on the safe side, ship both sisters to a brothel in Sarajevo . There Elena, out of fear, turns down offers of help from Daniel Appleton, an employee of a British human rights organization.
When the two sisters fail to make enough money, they are to be sold to London via Italy, but the boat of the human traffickers is discovered by the Italian coast guard. To buy time, they throw Elena overboard and manage to escape with Vara. Elena survives and is housed in an Italian women's shelter . There, the employees and girls have to fight off the psychological pressure of the human traffickers, who visit the house every day and try to contact the inmates. Fearing for Vara, Elena flees the women's shelter and returns to the hands of the human traffickers, who promise to bring her to her sister. Once in London, she managed to escape, seriously injured, after the promises turned out to be lies again. Taken into custody by the police, Elena is supposed to testify in a trial against the smugglers . She meets Daniel again, who takes care of her and with whom she starts an affair. With the help of him and the police, she manages to see her sister again. In the meantime, she has entered into a relationship with one of her former tormentors and serves as his assistant. Elena has to realize that Vara has achieved some prosperity thanks to the smuggling business and is not thinking of returning to Moldova. Vara is arrested at a train station when a girl is handed over after she has been under police surveillance for a long time. The police also succeed in arresting the majority of the smugglers in Great Britain, but the traffickers in Moldova manage to escape or they cannot be prosecuted for lack of evidence. Elena, with Daniel's help, returns to her home village in Moldova, where she meets her son and mother again.
In another storyline, Madeleine Harlsburgh, foundation director of the heavily criticized American security company Kernwell, has to realize that her husband and the company, as well as its main sponsor, are involved in human trafficking. After a trip to Italy, where she met Elena, among others, her husband Tom got a video through a former employee. This shows interviews of kidnapped girls who pose in front of a Kernwell jacket. After Daniel made the scandal public in London, Madeleine and her husband fell apart. She manages to get hold of the video and hand it over to the police.
Reviews
film-dienst wrote that the film was "ambitious, thoroughly researched and played convincingly" . He operates “skillfully with exciting genre resources without making them an end in themselves” .
Awards
The film won eight BAFTA TV Awards in 2005 , including Best Drama , for portraying Anamaria Marinca , for camera work, editing, sound and film music. The costumes were nominated for another BAFTA TV Award. The four Gemini Awards won in 2005 included those for Maria Popistașu and in the Best Miniseries category . The film was nominated for ten other Gemini Awards, including directing, writing and playing by Wendy Crewson, Anamaria Marinca, Luke Kirby, Chris Potter and John Simm.
The film received four Royal Television Society Television Awards in 2005 - for Best Drama , for Anamaria Marinca, for Production Design and for Editing - and was nominated for the same award in three other categories. He won the Prix Italia in 2005 . Anamaria Marinca received the Golden Nymph of the Monte-Carlo TV Festival in 2005 . David Yates was nominated for the Directors Guild of Great Britain Award in 2005. The film was nominated for a 2005 Directors Guild of Canada award for sound editing .
backgrounds
The film was shot in Bucharest , Dartmouth ( Nova Scotia ) and London . Its world premiere took place on October 14, 2004 in Great Britain.
Web links
- Sex Traffic in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sex Traffic. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 17, 2016 .
- ^ Filming locations for Sex Traffic , accessed August 8, 2008
- ↑ Release dates for Sex Traffic , accessed August 8, 2008