Human Trafficking (2005) (TV)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Christian Duguay

Writers (WGA):

Carol Doyle (teleplay) and
Agatha Dominik (teleplay) ...

Release Date:

24 October 2005 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Everyday, young girls are bought and sold.

Plot:

Hundreds of thousands of young women have vanished from their everyday lives-forced by violence into a hellish existence of brutality and prostitution...

Plot Keywords:

Ice | Conspiracy | Philippines | Underworld | White Slavery

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 6 wins & 5 nominations

Cast

Lynne Adams	...	Ellen Baker
Sarah Allen	...	Ludmilla
Andreas Apergis	...	Jimmy
Manuel Aranguiz	...	Mexican Police Captain
Isabelle Blais	...	Helena Votrubova
Céline Bonnier	...	Sophie
Emma Campbell	...	Samantha Gray
Robert Carlyle	...	Sergei Karpovich
Edouardo Castillon	...	Roy Filipo
Joe Cobden	...	Richard Sapperstein
Larry Day	...	Dr. Smith
Alan Fawcett	...	DHS Agent Leary
Von Flores	...	Rico
Dawn Ford	...	Viktoria Votrubova - Helena's Aunt
Rémy Girard	...	Viktor Tagarov

Runtime:

176 min | Germany:89 min (DVD version)

Country:

Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Spain:18 | Australia:MA (DVD rating) | Singapore:M18 | New Zealand:R16 (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Company:

For Sale Productions (Muse)

Goofs:

Factual errors: The New York crime scene investigators have the inscription CSI on their jacket, while NYPD CSI is called CSU, for crime scene unit.

Quotes:

Kate Morozov: I am a team player.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Being Sergei Karpovich (2006) (V)

Like a visit to hell 10 Stars - Excellent Film

This is a look into the pure evil of men (and even a few women) who deal in the horrible criminal underworld trade of human trafficking.

The film details the high price of human pain in both the emotional and physical suffering of these girls and young women forced to be sex slaves/prostitutes, as well as sometimes forced into the most disgusting and degrading of sexual activity imaginable for the purpose of selling hardcore porn films.

They are obtained by various methods: young girls are sold by their fathers in poverty-stricken countries, older girls/women are tricked by criminals who pretend to romance them, or lured by fake modeling agencies. Sometimes the girls are out and out kidnapped.

They then keep them in line through violence and threats of killing their families.

The thing that makes this even more horrible is that while this was a film, it is based on fact. This is actually happening, and it is a world-wide operation.

Legal authorities, at least in the states, I don't know about elsewhere, are trying to catch them, but it's very difficult to do, because the females are moved constantly from one brothel to another, from city to city, and even from country to country.

Even when these criminals are sometimes caught, the girls are frequently too intimidated and frightened to testify. These organizations have people located in a variety of countries--they know where these girls families live and can kill them at a moment's notice if a girl even dares talk to authorities.

The way they are transported is equally sub-human - in huge boxcar like containers, where they are imprisoned and placed like cargo on ships, in the back of trucks, inside cages, and long, arduous marches at night.

They have no protection against STDs, and if they become ill or simply raped until they are completely worn out and are of no further use, they are just killed and tossed out like so much garbage.

The capper to all this, however, the most evil part of all, is the fact if there weren't a market there wouldn't be the product. Men who visit these brothels where young girls & young women are,(mostly foreign women), and use them, raping them would be an accurate term, are just as guilty as the men who are selling them.

And the United States is THE largest market!