It Happened Just Before

The documentary deals with the global phenomenon of human trafficking. The stories of affected women are told by people who have no actual connection to the facts, but could have. Director Anja Salomonowitz chooses an original approach to her topic. The film is based on real stories of trafficked women, which the director has condensed into a documentary screenplay. Thus, the films constantly finds new connections between the narrative logic of cinematographic fiction, the “what could happen” and the documentary logic, the “what has happened”. The sequences are too constructed to be regarded a classical documentary scenes: every day life is transformed into something cinematographic. The people, places and situations, however, are real.

Keywords

  • Award Winning
  • Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film
  • Politics: Human Rights
  • True Story
  • women

Actors

  • Rainer Halbauer
  • Otto Pikal
  • Leopold Sobotka
  • Anna Sparer

Director

  • Anja Salomonowitz

Crime, Documentary


1h 12min


12 FSK

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Austria
2006
This documentary tells the harrowing story of the global phenomenon of human trafficking.

This documentary tells the harrowing story of the global phenomenon of human trafficking.


The documentary deals with the global phenomenon of human trafficking. The stories of affected women are told by people who have no actual connection to the facts, but could have.


Director Anja Salomonowitz chooses an original approach to her topic. The film is based on real stories of trafficked women, which the director has condensed into a documentary screenplay. Thus, the films constantly finds new connections between the narrative logic of cinematographic fiction, the “what could happen” and the documentary logic, the “what has happened”.


The sequences are too constructed to be regarded a classical documentary scenes: every day life is transformed into something cinematographic. The people, places and situations, however, are real.

Festivals

Cast & Crew