Viko

The Whistleblower (2010)

Actors: Vanessa Redgrave (actress), Mychael Danna (composer), Jeanette Hain (actress), Danny John-Jules (actor), Jimmy de Brabant (producer), Benedict Cumberbatch (actor), Monica Bellucci (actress), Nikolaj Lie Kaas (actor), Liam Cunningham (actor), David Strathairn (actor), William Hope (actor), Rachel Weisz (actress), David Hewlett (actor), Gero Brugmann (miscellaneous crew), Andrei Boncea (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Inspired by true events, Kathy (Rachel Weisz) is an American police officer who takes a job working as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. Her expectations of helping to rebuild a devastated country are dashed when she uncovers a dangerous reality of corruption, cover-up and intrigue amid a world of private contractors and multinational diplomatic doubletalk.

Keywords: accountability, based-on-true-story, bosnia, bosnia-herzegovina, brutality, computer-search, conscience, conspiracy, corruption, cover-up
Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: Nothing is more dangerous than the truth.

Quotes:

[first lines]::Raya: [in Ukrainian] I have to get home. Mama's gonna kill me.::Luba: No. You are staying with me tonight. Roman wants us there at nine in the morning. Raya, we've been over this. It's just a few months working in a hotel.::Raya: Yes, but...::Luba: You want to work at a Copyshack like your mother? He said it was both of us or nothing!::Raya: ...No. [walks away]

Blakely: During your training you will see that peace is harder won than war. That every mornings hope is haunted by yesterday's nightmare.

Fred Murray: [interrupting here findings] Where are we going, Columbo?::Kathryn Bolkovac: I don't know, but um, something fucked up is going on.::Fred Murray: Ooh. Honey, it's like I say, this is Bosnia. These people specialize in "fucked up".

Kathryn Bolkovac: [email to authorities] We are peacekeepers who came to protect the innocent, but now prey upon them in the worst ways possible. We may be accused of thinking with our hearts instead of our heads, but we will have our humanity.

Blakely: Madeleine, I have to protect this organization, and so should you. The U.N. is too fragile, too important. And that's what immunity is for.::Madeleine Rees: Immunity, not impunity. The United Nations was formed from the ashes of Auschwitz. The United States led the way, and it's a point of honor with me that the U.N. is not remembered for raping the very people we must protect.::Blakely: Those girls are whores of war. It happens. I will not dictate for morality.::Madeleine Rees: So what *are* we dictating for?

Blakely: You're trespassing.::Kathryn Bolkovac: So what? What are you going to do? Fire me again? You gonna arrest me? I have diplomatic immunity. Isn't that what you all rely on around here?

[last lines]::BBC Reporter: Given everything you've been through, would you do it again?::Kathryn Bolkovac: Yes. Yes, I would. No doubt about it.

Viko (2009)

Actors: Sergej Trifunovic (actor), Adi Spektor (actor), Natasha Blasick (actress), Darrin Navarro (editor), Luke Treadaway (actor), Christopher Haskell (actor), Kristina Malota (actress), Ashley Patterson (miscellaneous crew), Vania Ouzounova (costume designer), Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper (actor), Andres De La Fuente (actor), Christine DiTillio (actress), Nadia Benamara (producer), Rachel Kanouse (actress), Sean Rogers (actor),

Plot: Former Yugoslavia. 1997. 17 year old VIKO shares a squalid, cramped apartment with his family, all struggling for survival. His only joy is with his girlfriend LILA, and their dream of escaping to London. When his older brother, IVAN, finally offers him some black market work, that dream suddenly seems within reach. Enlisted as a driver for his brother, Viko hopes to make his money and go. But instead, Viko is drawn into a web of sex-trafficking, when he is forced to stand in for a 'disappeared' member of the gang. Overnight, he is brought into the belly of an organization he might never escape. And into a role from which he may never recover. The story of a boy's induction into a sex-trafficking ring, VIKO explores the devastating effect of violence on victim and perpetrator alike.

Genres: Drama, Short, Thriller,
Taglines: Former Yugoslavia. 1997. Monsters are not born, but made.

Sex Traffic (2004)

Actors: Wendy Crewson (actress), Andi Vasluianu (actor), Jonathan Goldsmith (composer), Elton Farla (miscellaneous crew), Elina Löwensohn (actress), Len Cariou (actor), John Simm (actor), Razvan Vasilescu (actor), Maury Chaykin (actor), Robert Joy (actor), Gary Levert (actor), Michele Buck (producer), Emil Hostina (actor), Chris Potter (actor), Jason Watkins (actor),

Plot: Boston based Kernwell Industries is an American defense contractor. One of those contracts is to deploy 3,000 peacekeepers to the International Peacekeeping Coalition's work in the Balkans. Because of the near epidemic problem of sex trafficking of young Balkan women, Kernwell has decided to support the charity, Worldwide Federation Against Forced Migration. Kernwell's head of charities is Madeleine Harlsburg, the wife of the company's CEO, Tom Harlsburg. Although it does not have a pristine reputation as a good social corporate citizen, Kernwell hits a bigger public relations problem when it is learned that one of those 3,000 peacekeepers was caught trying to buy the services of a teen-aged prostitute in Sarajevo. Although not named to the media, that person is Sergeant Callum Tate, who swears he was trying to save that woman. In reality, Tate has evidence of a larger conspiracy of sex trafficking. Regardless of the truth or falsehood of accusations, some within Kernwell will do whatever they require to protect their organization's brand. Meanwhile, the Moldovan Visinescu sisters - Lena and Vara - believe they are moving to London with Vara's boyfriend Alexi to lead a better life to be able to send money back to support their mother and Lena's infant son. However, they soon learn that Alexi has instead sold them into a white slavery ring. Speak For Freedom, a London-based non-profit organization, works in many areas including monitoring sex trafficking in order to assist authorities in stopping it. Daniel Appleton, one of its employees, gets involved in trying to save the Visinescus.

Keywords: anal-rape, corruption, eastern-europe, female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, forced-prostitution, forced-to-strip, human-trafficking, men-beating-defenseless-woman, pimp
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: Where there's demand, there's always supply.

Quotes:

Daniel Appleton: [to break the uncomfortable silence at dinner] I lost my job today.::Elena Visinescu: I lost my job today too.

Billy Harlsburgh: Mom, you are one of the most smartest people I know. But when it comes to dad, I think you just enjoy being dumb!

O fovos (1991)

Actors: Yiorgos Mylonas (writer), Yiorgos Mylonas (director), Stratos Pahis (actor), Yannis Zouganelis (composer), Nikos Tsachiridis (actor), Antonis Yakovakis (actor), Zannino (actor), Alekos Alexandrakis (actor), Spyros Kalogirou (actor), Tasos Kostis (actor), Nikos Dadinopoulos (actor), Sofi Zanninou (actress), Mary Vidali (actress), Giannis Kostis (actor), Efi Pikoula (actress),

Genres: Action, Drama,