Prostitute

Overview

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Family guide

Cast & crew

Oleg FrelikhDirectorVera Orlovaas Nadezhda TyrkinaVasili Yaroslavtsevas Pyotr, Orlova's husbandElisaveta Yaroshas LyubaOOlga Bonusas VarvaraIvan Lagutinas Vasiliy Dmitrich, neighbourYYevgenia Sheremetyevaas Manya, prostituteAAleksandr Ledashchevas Shura, komsomol memberYYelizaveta Teplykhas MatchmakerPPavel Tammas Kondratyev, butcherLL. Krasinaas Birman, doctorMark Donskoyas PasserbyOleg Frelikh

• “What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician – these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.”

• “Prostitution is not a monolith. The newspapers use the plight of the most vulnerable women to symbolize the entire field, ignoring the diversity of the sex-worker community.”

• “What I am saying is that truth is usually more complicated than any one perspective can capture. Prostitution is not a monolith. Each woman experiences the profession in a different manner. And nothing can be gained by having different groups of feminists or prostitutes — all of whom are probably telling the truth of their own experiences — attempting to discredit each other.”

• “You a captain? You slave, for what? For tearing a poor whore’s ruff in a bawdy-house?”

• “The Iceberg Slim story revolves around a sex worker at the natural end of her career, and her pimp, who goes to great lengths to force her, his best earner, into further years of indentured servitude. He stages a death and pins the blame on her, the guilt and shame breaking her spirit. Only her pimp can offer her salvation, and the only way to repay that debt is to keep working.”

• “Egyptian law states that a man who is caught with a prostitute is not imprisoned; instead, his testimony is used to convict and imprison the prostitute.”

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