Currently in post-production, a trailer for the forthcoming based-on-a-true-story sex trafficking drama “The Whistleblower” has made its way online, and given the talent involved, it’s surprisingly not very engaging.
Playing like a re-tooled version of “The Constant Gardener,” the film finds Rachel Weisz playing Kathryn Bolkovac a Nebraska cop who gets drawn into an investigation into the seedy world of international sexual slavery. C0-starring David Strathairn, Monica Bellucci and Vanessa Redgrave it seems like it should be a slam dunk, no brainer of a topical, interesting drama but it plays like a pretty rote walk through this kind of material. The film marks the feature debut of Larysa Kondracki who wrote the film with Eilis Kirwan.
No word yet on distributors or release dates but you can read the official synopsis and watch the trailer after the jump:
Kathryn Bolkovac is a Nebraska cop who is thrust into the gravelly snake pit of UN regulated Bosnia. She works as part of a private corporate army, training Bosnian police to restore order to the war-torn country. As she begins to get the lay of the land in her new environment, she starts to see signs of a terrible underground industry whose patrons are not only from within the corporation but from within the United Nations as well. After finding a woman who has escaped from a human trafficker selling sex slaves to hidden brothels in the area, Kathryn begins to see how expansive an industry it has become in the years following the war. As she gathers more and more evidence to bring to light she discovers the last thing she ever expected, that there is no way for the corporate army and UN officers to be held accountable for their actions. Based on the harrowing true story of a single womans quest for justice in the face of a truth no one wanted to expose and organizations facilitating the very crimes they were created to stop. But is one woman enough to go up against the United Nations and its corporate conspirators.