Lilya 4-ever

Name: Lilya 4-ever
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 2002-08-23
Duration: 1 h 49 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Oksana Akinshina, Artyom Bogucharsky, Lyubov Agapova, Liliya Shinkaryova, Elina Benenson

Lilja 4-ever (2002)

Timing: 1:49 (109 min)

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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

$2 700 000

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

Josefin Åsberg

Audition

Jesper Kurlandsky

Editing

Michał Leszczyłowski, Bernhard Winkler, Oleg Morgunov
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Short description

In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.

What's left behind the scenes

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.
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.