Lilya 4 ever

Lilja 4ever is a 2002 SwedishDanish drama film directed by Lukas Moodysson. Lilja 4ever is a story of the downward spiral of Lilja, played by Oksana Akinshina, a girl in the former Soviet Union whose mother abandons her to move to the United States. The story is loosely based on the true case of Danguol Rasalait, and examines the issue of human trafficking and sexual slavery.

The film starts with a figure running desperately towards a motorway bridge, with a factory belching smoke in the background, to a soundtrack of Mein Herz brennt by Rammstein. When the figure turns around the film introduces the audience to Lilja, who has recently been brutally beaten. The film reveals her past.Lilja lives a fairly bleak life with her mother in a run down apartment block in a squalid, poor town in an unnamed former republic of the Soviet Union principal filming took place in Paldiski, Estonia. For all intents and purposes she is a normal teenage girl albeit an impoverished one. Liljas mother tells her they are emigrating to the United States with her new boyfriend, but at the last minute Lilja is left behind, in the care of her aunt. A forced move into a squalid flat while the Aunt moves herself into the larger, nicer flat that Lilja and her mother had lived in is only the beginning and a succession of miseries are heaped upon Lilja. Liljas best friend encourages her to join her in prostituting herself for extra cash, though Lilja decides not to follow through. However, when the friends father finds some mysterious money, the friend claims that she was the one who sat at the bar while Lilja prostituted herself. Not content with ruining Liljas reputation at home, the friend soon circulates the story around the school. As Lilja has been abandoned, she now really does have to prostitute herself for money to live. One glimmer of hope is her friend Volodya, abused and rejected by his alcoholic father, with whom she forms a tender protective relationship. She buys Volodya a basketball with money she has earned as a prostitute, but Volodyas father punctures it with a pair of scissors. Another glimmer of hope is Andrei, who becomes her boyfriend and offers her a job in Sweden. But all is not what it seems and only bad things await Lilja when she arrives there. ........

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