Viko

Overview

Former Yugoslavia. 1997. 17 year old VIKO shares a squalid, cramped apartment with his family, all struggling for survival. His only joy is with his girlfriend LILA, and their dream of escaping to London. When his older brother, IVAN, finally offers him some black market work, that dream suddenly seems within reach. Enlisted as a driver for his brother, Viko hopes to make his money and go. But instead, Viko is drawn into a web of sex-trafficking, when he is forced to stand in for a 'disappeared' member of the gang. Overnight, he is brought into the belly of an organization he might never escape. And into a role from which he may never recover. The story of a boy's induction into a sex-trafficking ring, VIKO explores the devastating effect of violence on victim and perpetrator alike.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 2009

Original language

English

Spoken languages

Serbian

Countries

Canada

Production

Collective Productions

Cast

Christopher Haskell,Arthur Victoryan,Sean Rogers,Wes Robertson,Milena Lukich,Sasha Golberg,Sergej Trifunović,Tina Ivlev,Adi Spektor,Kristina Malotaand 12 more

Director

Larysa Kondracki

Writer

Larysa Kondracki,Nadia Benamara

Cinematography

Tobias Datum,Masanobu Takayanagi

Music

Onnalee Blank

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt1344884