Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (2005)★ 8.1/10

TV-MA · BE · 50 min · May 26, 2005 · 2 seasons

Crime
Drama

Directed by: Guy Goossens, Marc Punt

Women are lured from Lithuania by Belgian criminals promising dance careers, but are trafficked into sexual slavery. From Cyprus to Belgium, they face abuse while corrupt police fail to stop the gangs.

Original title

Russian Dolls: Sex Trade

Storyline

Each year hundreds of women are taken from their homes and forced into a life of prostitution and sexual slavery. This is the story of ten of them. A Belgian criminal gang head east to Lithuania to recruit young women desperate to leave their impoverished lives. Promising a glamorous life as members of a stage dance troupe, the girls are eager to sign up. From the training in Cyprus, to the strip clubs and illegal brothers in Belgium, the girls from the start are forced into a life of rape, abuse, murder and misery. The police are slow and corrupt, and the gangsters are always one step ahead of the law.

Rating

8.1 / 10 · 2,794

Companies

Independent Productions, Living Films, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Cuatro, Edel Media & Entertainment, FX Brasil, FX Italia, High Point Film and Television, M6, Markiza, RTL Crime, Ren-TV, Scanbox Entertainment, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Universal Pictures, VMM, Viasat3, Vlaamse Televisie Maatschappij (VTM), Yleisradio (YLE)

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