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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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