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Russian Dolls: Sex Trade

Guy GoossensMark Punt
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Russian Dolls: Sex Trade
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Original title : Matroesjka's
Directed by : Guy Goossens & Mark Punt
Release date: 1 May 2005
Duration: 50 minutes
Genre: Thriller
Country : BE (2005)
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Russian Dolls: Sex Trade .

 Synopsis

Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.

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Season 2 (2008)

10  |  : 04/11/2008 Smugglers Ray Van Mechelen and Eddy Stoefs were released from jail where they were since the end of Matroesjka's, three years before. They discovered then that their partner, Jan Verplancke, disappeared with the money they made to Thailand. They go then to Thailand, but there Verplanke does not give them the money back : instead, he offers them young Thai girls. But things have changed in three years : the market has grown, and new trafficking groups want to have a place in the market. The only things the girls have in common is that "they do that for their families 2
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After 3 years in jail Ray Van Mechelen and Eddy Schoefs are released and discover that their previous business partner Jan Verplancke invested all their savings in a business in Thailand. When they go out to visit him, Jan makes them an offer. Meanwhile Bob Sels travels to Moldova wit Inesa to recrute new girls.
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Bob Sels gets a visit from Ukranian women traffickers. He turns their offer for cooperation down. The following night the Pussycat gets smashed up and 2 new girls, Nastya and Sveta, get kidnapped. Sels seeks the help of Ray Van Mechelen but he is not enthousiastic about the idea. Eddy does not want to leave Pattaya untill Jan has paid him back the full debt. To keep himself occupied he rins the T&A-hotel, where the girls entertain their guests.
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In Pattaya the T&A-stripclub gets closed by the police after a fire in the attached hotel. The Gallaghers suspect Jan of exporting girls to Belgium for his own profit. Ray travels to Kiev to recruit girls for Bob Sels together with Ukranian trafficker Maksim Morozov. Morozov makes Ray the offer of working together and placing Sels out of the game. The girls of the Pussycat still have not been paid. Sveta loses her patience, escapes and goes to the police.
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Sveta returns to Tansdniestr after a 3 day journey. She has made no money at all in Belgium but on top of that she is very unhappy. Thip en Pat are not happy either, they get abused daily by the Belis borthers and can't wait to leave the farm, away from the dirty old men. Jan travels to Bulgaria to buy cheap girls for Bob Sels. Accountant Tony accompanies him to keep an eye on Jan.
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Sveta returns to Tansdniestr after a 3 day journey. She has made no money at all in Belgium but on top of that she is very unhappy. Thip en Pat are not happy either, they get abused daily by the Belis borthers and can't wait to leave the farm, away from the dirty old men. Jan travels to Bulgaria to buy cheap girls for Bob Sels. Accountant Tony accompanies him to keep an eye on Jan.
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Danny recovers in hospital after being visited by the gang of Morozov. Bob Sels realises that Morozov is serious about taking over the Antwerp prostitution network and he decides to take drastic measures. He sends Jan and accountant Tony back to Bulgaria to find new girls. Carlo Dubois has taken Pat and Thip away from the Belis brothers and put them to work in the Kama Sutra stripclub.
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Jan and Tony return from Bulgaria without money or girls. The patience of Bob has run out. He gives Jan one week to either find him 10 new girls or pay him back the €15.000 in expenses. Returning to Bulgaria is not an option for Jan, but he heard that there is business to be done in Romania. Bob has set his sights on the Kama Sutra.
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Jan has returned from Romania with a group of young rebellious gipsy girls for Bob. Esther gets arrested by vice and discovers that Inesa is working as an informer for the police. She tries to blackmail Inesa with tis information. Nastya gets punished by Eddy for refusing a customer in the Pussycat. She wants to return home and asks Tony to help her. Thip wants to return to Thailand as well, even if it means being treated like a cashmachine by her family. This would be great for Eddy, as he is terrified Phit and Pat will tell people about the murder of Ray.
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Season 1 (2005)

10  |  : 01/05/2005 Drama 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. 1
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Ray and Mark organize dance auditions in Vilnius and tell the girls they will dance in discos in Western Europe. Two dead hookers are found.
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On Cyprus the girls receive "dancing classes" and all of a sudden all illusions are gone. They are forced to strip in a local nightclubs. 2 girls, Olga and Deborah where able to escape. Mike Simons meanwhile has showed remorse for what he had done, Inspector Clem still remains sceptic about his willingness to talk, he refuses to offer him protection. Reporter Nico Meas publishes a revealing article about Women Trafficking and the negligence of the Belgian police to do anything about it. Vincent Dockx is arrested for the murder of the 2 Russian women. Ray Van Mechelen gets nervous and steps in.
3 : Part 3
De cops soon close the case of the murder on Mike Simons. Laura suspects that Clem De Donder is passing along information to the gang of Ray Van Mechelen. The group of East-European women arrive in Antwerpen. They are not allowed to leave the night club. Van Mechelen makes it very clear what he expects of the girls. Already on the first night things go wrong, Deborah has assaulted one of the customers. The gang decides to sell her.
4 : Part 4
The gang removes the Russian Inga from a bar in Limburg and brings her back to Studio 69. Inga was part of the last East-European girls shipment. Kalinka is not happy of her return. Daria convinces Nico Maes to smuggle out a letter from the club. He gets caught, as long as Deborah refuses to respond to her new owners advances she is locked in the attic. John Dockx discovers that Jan Verplancke regularly lets Esther work in a bar. That is against the rules. Ray and Vincent decide to teach him a lesson.
5 : Part 5
The gang wants to sell 6 girls to a club owner from Netherlands. Mark Camps has to negotiate the price. He lets himself be brided. The cops raid Studio 69, but the gang was tipped of. Kalinka and Inga are being taken in for questioning. The position of is getting unbearable. Even Laura doesn't trust him anymore. Esther gets her stuff from Jan Verplancke, Who is out for revenge.
6 : Part 6
Irena goes into hiding at Peter Jones, the handyman from the club. His wife is all but happy about this, she contacts the cops. Clem De Donder is being suspended by internal affaires. The cops suspect him to be the person who gave the tip about the club raid. Jan Verplancke "accepted" back into the gang by Ray. Nico Maes writes another revealing story on the front page of the newspaper. The gang gets more nervous and get Esther to hear him out.
7 : Part 7
The girls have been in Belgium for 3 months now. The cops are keeping a close eye on Studio 69. The customers are being systematically checked after leaving the club and stay away. The Gang is starting to have money problems. Ray Van Mechelen Asks Jan Verplancke to start an escort service. A customer falls in love with Eva. He wants to buy her contract. After a skirmish with the cops Ray and Vincent are arrested.
8 : Part 8
Ray and Vincent more frequently disagree about the management of the club. Vincent wants ray out. He makes a lucrative offer to Jan and Eddy. Daria's savings money has disappeared. The other girls suspect Deborah. Wim Wilson has bought Eva's contract from the gang. He introduces Eva to his parents, but they are not happy at all. Vincent and Ray find themselves in an open conflict.
9 : Part 9
3 months later... Eva has a job in a snack bar. Nice Maes has convinced her to talk to the cops, but Eva refuses to press charges against the gang. After the incident with Vincent The relation between Ray and John has cooled off. The trust between the gang members is very low. Daria finds our her best friend Kasandra is murdered in Vilnius, which was ordered by Ray. After another raid in Studio 69, numerous girls were arrested. There seemed to be a problem with their visa. Eddy Stoefs and Ray Van Mechelen are arrested and accused of Women Trafficking, Assault and pimping.
10 : Part 10
After the funeral of John Dockx, Vincent and Ray have a difficult conversation. Ray does a proposition. Eddy gets in more trouble, he is being accused of messing with the accounting. Jan Verplancke now strongly plays his intriguer role. Ray kicks out Kalinka. Kalinka now feels humiliated and is out for revenge and of course she knows a lot about the illegal practices of Ray and his gang.

 Casting

Manou Kersting

Danny Bols
Luk Wyns

Eddy Stoefs
Axel Daeseleire

Jan Verplancke
Dirk van Dijck

Bob Sels
Bruno Vanden Broecke

Tony Grooven
Peter Thyssen

Rudi Sierens
Koen van Impe

Carlo Dubois
Marc van Eeghem

Marc Camps
Tom van Dyck

Vincent Dockx
Luk Wyns

Eddie Stoefs
Evgenia Brik

Kalinka

 

 

 

 

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