Sex Traffic (2004) (TV)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

David Yates

Writer:

Abi Morgan (written by)

Release Date:

14 October 2004 (UK)

Genre:

Drama | Crime

Plot:

This two-part drama focuses on the global business trafficking young women into forced prostitution in European and American cities...

Plot Keywords:

Forced Prostitution | Corruption | Pimp | Female Frontal Nudity | Anal Rape

Awards:

18 wins & 16 nominations

Cast

Wendy Crewson	...	Madeleine Harlsburgh
John Simm	...	Daniel Appleton
Anamaria Marinca	...	Elena Visinescu
Maria Popistasu	...	Vara 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 Löwensohn	...	Maria Danielski

Runtime:

189 min | UK:225 min (including commercials) (2 parts) | Finland:180 min (2 parts)

Country:

UK | Canada

Language:

English | Albanian | Italian | Romanian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:MA | Canada:18+ | Finland:K-15 (TV rating) (self applied)

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Company:

Big Motion Pictures

Trivia:

Anamaria Marinca had never acted in front of cameras before her role as Elena Visinescu.

Quotes:

Daniel Appleton: [to break the uncomfortable silence at dinner] I lost my job today.
Elena Visinescu: I lost my job today too.

What the hell ?

After seeing this 2 parter on CBC this weekend, I must confess complete and utter ignorance of this issue. For a while I thought we had learned from the mistakes of the past, only to find we in the 21st Century are no different from those of the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries in regard to the buying and selling of human flesh.

Who are buying these women ? What makes this trade work ? Is it us men ? Is it our partners for withholding sex to get what they want ? What a screwed up world we live in. These are the questions I am faced with after seeing this program.

This mini series portrays the sex slave industry is its gory details. Two young sisters, in an effort for a better life, are sold and moved through eastern to western Europe and eventually find themselves in London. How they make the journey is by the far the most scariest thing a human could ever experience.

My one beef is that the CBC left in the violence, rape scenes and beatings and edited out the F word every time - bizarre.