Promised Land (2004)

Original title

Ha-Aretz Hamuvtachat

Directed by

Amos Gitai

Genre

drama film

Country

Israel, France

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of young women from Eastern Europe are trafficked into Israel and forced into prostitution. The film follows their struggle to survive in this brutal situation.

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What happens

Promised Land (Hebrew: הארץ המובטחת) is a 2004 French-Israeli film, directed by Amos Gitai and starring Rosamund Pike, Diana Bespechni, and Hanna Schygulla. It tells the story of a group of East European girls smuggled into Israel to serve as prostitutes. The film is the first of Gitai's "Frontier" trilogy and premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Director Gitai commented on the film: "If I have succeeded in spoiling even one man's appetite, and causing him to stop going to prostitutes - then I feel I have succeeded in doing something." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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