Slaves Today - Business Without Mercy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Slaves Today - Business Without Mercy |
| Original title | Le schiave esistono ancora |
| Country of production |
Italy France |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1964 |
| length | 90/84 (Italian / German) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Maleno Malenotti Roberto Malenotti Folco Quilici |
| script |
Baccio Bandini Gianfranco Calderoni Roberto Malenotti Sean O'Callaghan |
| production | Luigi Ceccarelli |
| music | Teo Usuelli |
| camera |
Aldo Nascimben Giovanni Scarpellini Aldo Tonti Bitto Albertini Giuseppe Pinori |
| cut | Eraldo Da Roma |
Slaves Today - Business Without Mercy (Subtitle: A color documentary film about slavery and human trafficking in the 20th century , original title: Le schiave esistono ancora ) is an Italian-French reportage film from 1964 by Maleno Malenotti , Roberto Malenotti and Folco Quilici with predominantly documentary recordings and some posed scenes. The work had its world premiere on June 27, 1964 in Italy.
content
In Beirut , the film team is talking to a 19-year-old English woman who works there as a prostitute and, as a white woman, is much sought after by the upmarket clientele and is thus far above her native “colleagues”. In Eritrea the film team visits the house "El Greco", which looks like a department store for human trafficking. After the last war, the owner bought children who had become a nuisance to their mothers. The now almost grown up people are bought by rich Arabs at the highest prices. Untouched girls cost significantly more than boys. At the age of 16, the Italian orphan Maria was sold by his foster mother to an Egyptian, who initially made her his playmate and - when he had had enough of her - sold her on to a cathouse in Khartoum , where she now has to serve high state officials. Near the border between Oman and Saudi Arabia , naked people are exhibited for sale on a pedestal. Interested buyers feel the muscles and look into the mouths of the poor creatures to see whether the teeth are still complete. Strong young men are bought for menial work and young girls for love services. Many people have reached their destination in Mecca . Hajj has cost some of their entire fortune. Quite a few mothers have to sell their children in order to get money to travel home.
criticism
The lexicon of international films draws the following conclusion: "In addition to remarkably informative original recordings, for example of the holy places of Islam, a lot of unmistakably speculative material, including the film of a former harem lady."
source
Program for the film: Illustrierte Film-Bühne , Vereinigte Verlagsgesellschaft Franke & Co. KG, Munich, number 6834
Web links
- Slaves today - business without mercy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lexicon of international films, rororo-Taschenbuch No. 6322 (1988), p. 3486