Hope Lost

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Hope Lost
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Directed byDavid Petrucci
Written byFrancesco Trento
Damiano Giacomelli
Francesco Teresi
Loretta Tersigni
Produced byAndrea Iervolin
Cosetta Turco
Monika Bacardi
Danielle Maloni
Starring Danny Trejo
Mischa Barton
Michael Madsen
Daniel Baldwin
Narrated bydanny trejo
CinematographyDavide Manca
Edited byDavid Petrucci
Release date
  • 20 February 2015 (2015-02-20)(Los Angeles Italia Film Festival)
Running time
94 mins
CountryItaly
LanguageEnglish

Hope Lost is an Italian English-language sex trafficking thriller directed by David Petrucci.[ citation needed ] The film stars Danny Trejo, Mischa Barton, Michael Madsen and Daniel Baldwin. The film chronicles the struggles of a young Romanian woman trafficked to Italy. Filming took place in Rome in 2014 [1] and the film premiered at the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival on 20 February 2015.

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A young Romanian woman from a small town meets a man claiming to be a film director and he convinces her to come to Rome for auditions. This is a ruse and she is instead lured into a life of prostitution in Italy and then sold by her pimp to a man who intends to torture her and another young woman in a snuff movie. [2] [3]

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