Sex Slaves
Ric Esther Bienstock
Canada | 2005 | 89mins | Beta | Colour | Subtitled
A gripping exposé inside the global sex trade in women from the former Soviet Bloc. The film takes viewers into the shadowy, multi-billion dollar world of sex trafficking.
The spine of this feature documentary is the remarkable story of ‘Viorel’, a Ukrainian man on a mission to find, Katia, his pregnant, trafficked wife in Turkey. Hidden cameras follow Viorel as he tries to find the pimp who ‘owns’ Katia so as to buy her back.
Bienstock interviews traffickers, cops and victims as she takes us deeper into the world of modern sex slavery then anyone has before.
Part cinema verité, part investigation, Sex Slaves puts a human face on this most inhuman of contemporary issues. From the villages of Moldova and Ukraine, to underground brothels and discotheques where many women trafficked from the former Soviet Union are forced into prostitution, we witness first-hand the brutal world of white sex slavery. |
