The Way South
MovieTitle | Put na Jug |
User score | 4.4 |
Release date | May 10, 1988 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Juan Bautista Stagnaro |
Production country | Argentina, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia |
Production companies | JEMPSA, Smart Egg Pictures, C.F.S. Košutnjak, Art film 80 |
Run time | 89 min. |
A thirty year old man returns from South America to his native village, in the mountains of Yugoslavia, to find his spouse and take her along. He chooses the youngest daughter of self-supporting Jewish woman. The deceit gets discovered on the way to South America. Seven poor girls, among whom is his future wife, are imprisoned in ship's deck. He took them, promising rich marriage, and his real intention is to employ them in bordello houses of Buenos Aires, where the girls, not knowing the language, would be left to his mercy.