Matroesjka's (2005)

Directed by

Marc Punt

Genre

crime film

Country

Belgium

Length

2 seasons, 20 episodes

Rated

18

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 38 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of young women from Lithuania and Russia are tricked into signing contracts they do not understand. They are trafficked to Belgium by a criminal gang and forced to work in the sex trade at a club.

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What happens

Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (Dutch: Matroesjka's, meaning Matryoshka doll, also known as Matrioshki or Matrёshki) is a Flemish drama television series about a group of women from Lithuania and Russia who are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves. The series starts in Lithuania, where the girls are chosen and where they have to sign a contract in Greek, which they cannot understand. The gang, under the lead of Ray Van Mechelen, takes the girls to Cyprus and from there they are taken to Club 69 in Belgium to work. Russian Dolls is sponsored by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds). Russian Dolls is produced and directed by Guy Goossens and Marc Punt. Because of explicit scenes of sex and violence, the program is not appropriate for people under 16 years of age (according to Dutch and Belgian ratings). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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