Patrick, an American dealer in stolen artefacts, has been living in
Cambodia for several years when he meets Holly, a young girl, in the
K-11 red light district. Holly has recently been smuggled across
the border from Vietnam by her penniless parents and forced to work as
a prostitute. When Holly is sold to a people trafficker Patrick
sets out on a mad quest to find her and rescue her from a life of
depravity...
Cast: Ron Livingston (Patrick),
Chris Penn (Freddie),
Udo Kier (Klaus),
Virginie Ledoyen (Marie),
Thuy Nguyen (Holly),
Sahajak Boonthanakit (Tommy)
Country: USA / France / Israel / Cambodia
Language: English / Khmer / Vietnamese
Support: Color
Runtime: 114 min
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.
In the 1920s French cinema was at its most varied and stylish - witness the achievements of Abel Gance, Marcel L'Herbier, Jean Epstein and Jacques Feyder.
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