Die Unbekannte (2006)
33KDie Unbekannte: Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. With Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini, Piera Degli Esposti. Haunted by a horrible past, a young Ukrainian woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.
“Finally an Italian film with an international taste! No married couples going through a difficult period, no stupid pointed remarks to our painful ruling class.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe universe in which u0026quot;The Unknownu0026quot; takes place is, first, the shadow world of those sordid, sinister and rude men, who arenu0026#39;t worthy to be called human beings, who bait young girls from the East-European countries with the false promise of a good work in Italy, as waitresses, housemaids, even models. The girlsu0026#39; families pays a lot of money out for their daughtersu0026#39; travel toward the affluence, but, when the girls come to Italy, they soon find out they will never be cover beauties or salaried people: they are forced to prostitute themselves until they reach, with their work, the amount their families paid. Practically, they become slaves, continuously exposed to rapes, strokes, blackmails.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThen, u0026quot;The Unknownu0026quot; moves into the comfortable world of a common North Italy town. An incredibly harsh but marvelous film. At the end, I wondered: how many stories like this happen around us and we just arenu0026#39;t conscious.”
