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Amos Lavi, Anne Parillaud, Diana Bespechni

Russian-speaking women are traveling through the Sinai Desert accompanied by Bedouin nomads. It seems most of them expect they will be working as prostitutes out of nice hotels in Egypt, affording tim...( read more  read more... )e off to visit the pyramids and the like. How wrong they are. It's not along before they are hustled and moved around like cattle, afforded little dignity, stripped of their individuality and sent out to pay their way. But in this dehumanizing world, there is still a glimmer of humanity and, eventually, resistance: a madam provides solace for a distraught young woman, while other friendships slowly emerge among the women themselves.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Amos Gitai

Release Date: January 1, 2004

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DVD Release Date: August 21, 2007

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  • sephira081277
    April 21, 2009
    sephira081277
    About sex-Trafficking of women. Not as good as "My name is Justine" though. It doesnt give us enough depth of every character and their background. Focused on how they were smuggled as tourists into Israel as sex slaves. Then they focus on how they were "processed" and finally s...( read more)tart their "work". The back part was baffling, showing 2 characters on a bed and chatting random stuff and flashbacks of their liveds before in their home country but only keeps repeating the same flashbacks as a choir girl in church and another attending her father's funeral. Too much back and forth between these few scenes cause me to almost zzzz..
  • delnz99
    September 29, 2006
    delnz99
    How utterly UNinteresting.

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