Bucharest Express
- Document number
- 1586
- Date
- 2004
- Title
- Bucharest Express
- Author/publisher
- Chuck Portz
- Availability
- LSI library
- Document type(s)
- Multimedia,
- Keywords
- Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution, Trafficking process, Recruitment, Transportation, Transit, Transfer, Consent, Forced labour, Slavery
- Summary
- An American journalist, a mysterious Gypsy woman and a bookkeeper with an inside angle try to stay one step ahead of a gang of ruthless killers as they uncover the horrors of the human trafficking of sex slaves in the Balkans. Countries throughout the former Soviet Union provide a chilling backdrop to a tangled web of corruption, betrayal and romance as this unlikely band of heroes tries to uncover the secrets of the flesh-for-heroin trade. Bucharest Express is a film relating the trauma and tragedy of sexual trafficking in Bekova – a fictitious nation that could represent any of the eastern European countries where women and children are trafficked into sexual slavery against the backdrop of a collapsed economy and the breakdown of law and order. It’s not a documentary, but rather a hard-hitting mystery that blows the lid off the ruthless trade in young girls and women. The film was shot on location in the Republic of Moldova in the summer of 2001. During the production, the director, producers and crew lived under the ever-present threat that the film might be shut down by local gangsters or the tapes confiscated by officials with an interest in silencing the controversial message. Contact: abirkner@bucharestexpress.org
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