Promised Land (2004) Online
"Promised Land" tells the story of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and of their initiation into this trade of flesh, and finally of the accidental freeing of one girl who most fight for her freedom.
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
 | Rosamund Pike | - | Rose |
 | Diana Bespechni | - | Diana |
 | Hanna Schygulla | - | Hanna |
 | Anne Parillaud | - | Anne |
| Alla An | - | Alla |
| Kristina Likhnyski | - | Kristina |
| Katya Drabkin | - | Katya |
 | Yussuf Abu-Warda | - | Yussuf |
 | Amos Lavi | - | Hezi |
| Shalva Ben-Moshe | - | Igor |
| Craig Bachins | - | Greg |
| Meital Peretz | - | Meital |
| Menachem Lang | - | Menahem |
| Ran Kauchinsky | - | Rani |
| Peeter Polluveer | - | Peeter |
Director Amos Gitai said in an interview that he convinced the cast and crew to literally camp out in the desert where the opening sequences were shot. This began because he was tired of the long daily commute from the location to Tel Aviv, but he believes that the fact that most of them agreed to join him, living in tents without running water for days, added to the gritty realism of these scenes, because the actresses were just as unwashed and uncomfortable as their characters.
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