Lilya 4-ever

Lilja 4-Ever (2002)

Timing: 1:49 (109 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2002-08-23

Country

Denmark, Sweden

Production

Film i Väst, SVT, Zentropa Entertainments, Memfis Film, Svenska Filminstitutet, Det Danske Filminstitut, Nordisk Film & TV Fond

Genre

Crime, Drama

Budget

$4 600 000

Revenue

$1 007 747

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Director

Lukas Moodysson

Actors

Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharsky, Lyubov Agapova, Liliya Shinkaryova, Elina Benenson, Pavel Ponomaryov, Tomasz Neuman, Anastasiya Bedredinova, Tõnu Kark, Nikolai Bentsler
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Scenario

Producer

Lars Jönsson

Operator

Ulf Brantås

Composer

Nathan Larson

Artist

Audition

Jesper Kurlandsky

Editing

Michał Leszczyłowski, Bernhard Winkler, Oleg Morgunov
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• Oksana Akinshina and director Lukas Moodysson communicated through an interpreter, as Oksana does not speak English or Swedish.
• The money shown in the film is Estonian (100-kroner banknotes). Most of the scenes were filmed in Paldiski, but many also in Tallinn, specifically in the Kopli and Lasnamäe districts.
• Dangule Rasalaite (Lithuanian: Danguolė Rasalaitė) (May 19, 1983, Telšiai, Lithuanian SSR, USSR – January 10, 2000, Malmö, Sweden) was a 16-year-old Lithuanian girl who was forced into sexual slavery in Sweden against her will and, unable to cope, committed suicide by jumping from a bridge. Her case received wide coverage in the Swedish press in the early 2000s. The film 'Lilja 4-ever' was based on Rasalaite’s story.
• Danguolė Rasalaitė (Lithuanian: Danguolė Rasalaitė) (May 19, 1983, Telšiai, Lithuanian SSR, USSR – January 10, 2000, Malmö, Sweden) was a 16-year-old Lithuanian girl who was forced into sexual slavery in Sweden against her will and, unable to cope, committed suicide by jumping from a bridge. Her case received widespread coverage in the Swedish press in the early 2000s. The film "Lilya 4-ever" was based on Rasalaitė's story.