Hope Lost | |
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Directed by | David Petrucci |
Written by | Francesco Trento Damiano Giacomelli Francesco Teresi Loretta Tersigni |
Produced by | Andrea Iervolin Cosetta Turco Monika Bacardi Danielle Maloni |
Starring |
Danny Trejo Mischa Barton Michael Madsen Daniel Baldwin |
Narrated by | Danny Trejo |
Cinematography | Davide Manca |
Edited by | David Petrucci |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 mins |
Country | Italy |
Language | English |
Hope Lost is an Italian English-language sex trafficking thriller directed by David Petrucci.[ citation needed] The film stars Danny Trejo, Mischa Barton, Michael Madsen and Daniel Baldwin. The film chronicles the struggles of a young Romanian woman trafficked to Italy. Filming took place in Rome in 2014 [1] and the film premiered at the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival on 20 February 2015.
A young Romanian woman from a small town meets a man claiming to be a film director and he convinces her to come to Rome for auditions. This is a ruse and she is instead lured into a life of prostitution in Italy and then sold by her pimp to a man who intends to torture her and another young woman in a snuff movie. [2] [3]