White Slave Traffic | |
Director: | Jaap Speyer |
Music: | Hans May |
Cinematography: | Paul Holzki |
Studio: | Liberty-Film |
Distributor: | Süd-Film |
Country: | Germany |
White Slave Traffic (de|'''Mädchenhandel – Eine internationale Gefahr''',) is a 1926 German silent thriller film directed by Jaap Speyer and starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Erich Kaiser-Titz, and Fritz Alberti. When a Berlin nightclub worker moves to Budapest to take up a job that has been arranged for her, she finds herself being kidnapped by white slave traffickers. She is eventually rescued from a brothel in Athens. The film opened with a warning from a group committed to combating white slavery, but the film's sensationalist tone provoked controversy. In Britain it was refused a licence by the British Board of Film Censors although it is possible it had some private screenings. One contemporary review described it as a "crude melodrama on an unpleasant subject".