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24 October 2005 (USA)
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Everyday, young girls are bought and sold. more
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Hundreds of thousands of young women have vanished from their everyday lives-forced by violence into a hellish existence of brutality and prostitution...
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White Slavery
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Nominated for 2 Golden Globes.
Another 6 wins
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5 nominations
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(12 articles)
DioGuardi Campaigns Against Human Trafficking
(From Extra. 30 September 2009, 3:59 PM, PDT)
Exclusive: Robert Carlyle on 'Stargate Universe'
(From CinemaSpy. 29 September 2009, 9:40 AM, PDT)
(From Extra. 30 September 2009, 3:59 PM, PDT)
Exclusive: Robert Carlyle on 'Stargate Universe'
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Essential docudrama on unexposed nightmare network of monsters
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | 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 |
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176 min | Germany:89 min (DVD version)
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Kate goes on-line to lure the traffickers, she says that she has no college degree and that she is a kindergarten teacher. This is self-contradictory as virtually all teachers, from kindergarten through high school, are required to have a college degree for employment.
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Customs Agent Bill Meehan:
You got a lot of skills Kate. Acting isn't one of them.
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Referenced in Everybody's Movie (2006) (V)
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Kudos to Mira Sorvino (who has become a crusader on this), Lifetime, and producers for making this important expose of this vicious crime. The 4 hour opus charts a single Russian mobster as he kidnaps, rapes, and transports girls into America and around the world. Of course Mira and Donald Sutherland as ICE agents heroically chase the villains, but in reality very little is done to control these vicious predators- police are usually the problem, since they have no understanding or sympathy for the plight of captive "whores", whom they punish and bully for their supposed crimes.
I was a reporter for over 2 years in Russia, and have seen the monstrosity of these criminals and awesome beauty, sweetness, romanticism, and eroticism of the girls there- who are brought up to defer to and please men. In a place where people would make $20 a month, girls would jump at any Western job, which could give them a real life. Lured by an imaginary secretarial or maid job in Europe, they would have documents taken and quickly be raped and broken into total submission. Huge numbers are sent to Israel, where the government ignores problem. But all over the world, Russian girls are wanted by traffickers and johns for their great beauty, literacy, and skills.
An incredible NPR report explained how young girls are shipped to filthy Mexican nightmare brothels where they have to service 30-50 clients a day, then smuggled into America, where they are handed off to other pimps at Disneyland. By this time they are so terrorized and shattered that they don't even try to get away.
A Russian father improbably joins the traffickers to find and rescue his daughter.
If anything this docudrama soft-peddles the horrors- but TV couldn't take the unvarnished truth. It should be mandatory viewing for every American, especially all law enforcement. This hideous crime should be treated as seriously as genocide, since it is. As Sorvino says in the end, the shelve life of these girls before they are used up, killed, or diseased is 4 years, and some 800,000 are trafficked every year- several Darfurs, Bosnias, Kosovos, Iraqs put together.