Project Detail

Sex, Needles and Roubles

Synopsis

Sex, Needles and Roubles takes us on a journey to the cold winter nights of St. Petersburg where we meet with some of its young drug addicted prostitutes. Through poignant real-life stories and interviews with leading figures in the fight against AIDS, corrupt policemen-pimps and discriminating doctors, this documentary seeks to understand how AIDS reached such alarming proportions over the last decade. This is a crisis which has catapulted Russia into being the country with the fastest spreading epidemic of AIDS in the world today.

Details

Year
2005
Type of project
Features
Running time
62 mins
Format
DigiBeta
Director
Chloë Mercier
Producer
Chloë Mercier
Editor
Mariko Montpetit
Director of Photography
Pierre Boffety, Chloë Mercier
Sound
Damien Turpin
Composer
Sarah Sarhandi

Production Status

Production Company

Laika Pictures ltd.

3rd floor, 67 farringdon Road
London EC1M 3JB
UK

T+44 (0)7946 413 210

info@laikapictures.com

Sales Company

Laika Pictures ltd.

3rd floor, 67 farringdon Road
London EC1M 3JB
UK

T+44 (0)7946 413 210

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