Human Trafficking (2005) (TV)

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 | Porn Shoot | Underworld | Corruption | Child Prostitution

Awards:

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

Cast

Mira Sorvino	...	Kate Morozov
Donald Sutherland	...	Customs Agent Bill Meehan
Rémy Girard	...	Viktor Tagarov
Isabelle Blais	...	Helena Votrubova
Laurence Leboeuf	...	Nadia Tagarov
Vlasta Vrana	...	Tommy
Céline Bonnier	...	Sophie
Mark Antony Krupa	...	Andrei (as Mark-Anthony Krupa)
Lynne Adams	...	Ellen Baker
David Boutin	...	Frederick
Emma Campbell	...	Samantha Gray
Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse	...	Annie Gray
Robert Carlyle	...	Sergei Karpovich
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sarah Allen	...	Ludmilla
Andreas Apergis	...	Jimmy
Manuel Aranguiz	...	Mexican Police Captain
Pascale Bélanger	...	Tanya
Catherine Bérubé	...	14 Year Old Jumper
Danny Blanco	...	CSI Officer (as Danny Blanco Hall)
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
Terry Haig	...	Tom Halloran
Matt Holland	...	ICE Intelligence Technician
Anna Hopkins	...	Katerina
Jeanne Lauzon	...	Jasmine
Marco Ledezma	...	Mexican Customs Officer
Fanny-Laure Malo	...	Trafficked Vienna Girl
Alice Morel-Michaud	...	Ivanka Votrubova - Helena's Daughter
Philip Pretten	...	John
Derrick Damon Reeve	...	Porn Actor #1
Jean-Daniel Roy	...	Porn Actor #1
Frank Schorpion	...	Mr. Gray - Annie's Father
Andrew Simms	...	ICE Data Technician
Ivan Smith	...	Candy Store Owner
Michael Sorvino	...	Mischa Morozov
Stephen Spreekmeester	...	I.C.E. Agent in Van
Manuel Tadros	...	Miguel - Mexican Smuggler
Malcolm Travis	...	Party Host
Marek Vasut	...	Lev
Ferelith Young	...	Lanky Girl
Richard Zeman	...	Waiter
Anatoly Zinoviev	...	Sasha

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

Filming Locations:

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Company:

For Sale Productions (Muse)

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: The "Destination Airlines" billboard has a Corbis "watermark." The image used for the special effect is from the Corbis stock photography service. "Watermark-free" images are available to the photo service's subscribers.

Quotes:

Customs Agent Bill Meehan: You got a lot of skills Kate. Acting isn't one of them.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Everybody's Movie (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!