Alternative title: Matrioshki
State: Ended
Genre: Drama
Origin:
Belgium
Developed by: Guy Goossens and Mark Punt
Stars: Axel Daeseleire, Peter Van den Begin and Evgenia Brik
IMDb score:
8,1 (2.656)
Releasedate: Wednesday 5 January 2005
This TV Show is not available on US streaming services.
Matroesjka's plot
Matroesjka's is about Raymond Van Mechelen, a Belgian trafficker, who recruits young Russian and Lithuanian women in Vilnius with the help of local talent scouts. After all, Eastern European women are very popular with Western brothel visitors. Belgium is a dream transit country. The police are slow and the immigration service corrupt. Those who dare, can always rustle something up. In Cyprus, girls in local strip clubs first receive 'dance training'. Then they travel to Belgium, where they are accommodated in the nightclub of the Van Mechelen gang and then sold on to business associates in Belgium and the Netherlands. The police keep aloof. After all, 'Russian whores' are 'not a priority'. It's been a thriving business for a long time, but the latest batch of girls is causing the gang a lot of headaches. And then there's a remorseful debtor and an annoying investigative reporter. When things suddenly take a turn for the worse, tensions between the gang members run high.
Actors and actresses
Jan Verplancke
Raymond van Mechelen
Nico Maes
Daria
Kasandra
Clem de Donder
Marc Camps
Esther van de Walle
Mike Simons
Laura Keyser
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GoodOldJack
- 394 comments
- 2348 votes
Legendary characters such as Ray Van Mechelen, fantastic dialogues and conversations, equally legendary secondary characters by Manou Kersting and Tom Van Dijck, among others, great scenarios, in short, tragicomedy at its best. It is a pity that the second season is nowhere near the level of this fantastic first season.
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Donkerwoud
- 1299 comments
- 691 votes
Flemish attempt to capitalize on the success of the dark crime series from that time. From what I remember it's a bit fragmentary: lots of small standalone stories rather than a really strong build-up. Lots of functional nudity and gratuitous violence.
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