Matrioshki

Original Title: Matroesjka's

10 x 45' | 2004 (Completed)

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Director:	Guy Goossens, Marc Punt
Producer:	Marc Punt
Writer:	Marc Punt

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A Belgian criminal gang travels from Antwerp to Lithuania to recruit young Eastern European girls. After getting a 'special training program' in Cyprus, the girls end up in strip joints and brothels in Belgium, while some of them are sold to pimps in Holland and Germany. Belgium turns out to be the perfect transit country for traffic in women.The police are slow, while immigration officers are corrupt. It is easy money for the gangsters.

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A Belgian criminal gang travels from Antwerp to Lithuania to recruit young Eastern European girls. After getting a 'special training program' in Cyprus, the girls end up in strip joints and brothels in Belgium, while some of them are sold to pimps in Holland and Germany. Belgium turns out to be the perfect transit country for traffic in women. The police are slow, while immigration officers are corrupt. It is easy money for the gangsters. But this latest group of girls are giving them a hard time. And there is also this very ambitious investigative journalist and a former gang member who is deep in debt...

Credits

Director
Guy Goossens, Marc Punt
Producer
Marc Punt
Writer
Marc Punt
Cast
Peter Van den Begin, Zemyna Asmontaité, Wim Opbrouck, Axel Daeseleire, Evgenia Hirivskaya, Frank Aendenboom, Jan Decleir, Lika Kremer, Liuba Tolkalina, Luk Wyns
Editing
Alain Dessauvage, Ludo Troch, Philippe Ravoet
Photography
Michel Van Laer
Music
David Julyan

Format

Creation details

Type
Series
Category
Fiction
Production share
Majority Flemish Production
Belgium
Genre
Year of production

2004
Production status
Completed
Original title
Matroesjka's

Technical specs

Running time
10 x 45'
Aspect ratio
16:9
Sound format
5.1 (+sub)
Available formats
16mm
Colour
Colour

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Contact

Independent Productions

Godefriduskaai 22
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium

T +32 3 201 10 50
marcpunt@independentfilms.be

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United Kingdom

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