Lilya 4-Ever

Name: Lilya 4-Ever
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 2002
Duration: 109 min
Cast: Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharskiy, Lyubov Agapova, Liliya Shinkaryova, Elina Benenson

Lukas Moodysson20021h 49mCrime, Drama

Why we chose it

Lukas Moodysson (“Show Me Love”) turns to harrowing drama, inspired by Danguolė Rasalaitė, a sixteen-year-old from Lithuania who was sold to Sweden. What happens to Lilya is devastating, Rammstein thunders on the soundtrack, and the film gets under your skin and stays there.

Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old Lilya is waiting for her mother to take her to America, but her mother leaves the former Soviet republic without her, and her aunt moves the girl into a worse flat. As the money runs out and the neighbours turn their backs, all she has left is Volodya, an eleven-year-old boy nobody wants either. Then one day Andrei offers her a job in Sweden.