White Slave Traffic

White Slave Traffic
Directed byJaap Speyer
Written by
Starring
CinematographyPaul Holzki
Music byHans May
Production
company
Liberty-Film
Distributed bySüd-Film
Release date
  • 1926 (1926)
CountryGermany
Languages

White Slave Traffic (German: Mädchenhandel – Eine internationale Gefahr, lit.'Trafficking in girls – an international threat') is a 1926 German silent thriller film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Erich Kaiser-Titz, and Fritz Alberti. When a Berlin nightclub worker moves to Budapest to take up a job that has been arranged for her, she finds herself being kidnapped by white slave traffickers. She is eventually rescued from a brothel in Athens. The film opened with a warning from a group committed to combating white slavery, but the film's sensationalist tone provoked controversy. In Britain it was refused a licence by the British Board of Film Censors although it is possible it had some private screenings. One contemporary review described it as a "crude melodrama on an unpleasant subject".[1]

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References

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  1. ^ Robertson, pp. 31–32.

Bibliography

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  • Robertson, James Crighton (1993). The Hidden Cinema: British Film Censorship in Action, 1913–1975. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-09034-6.
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