They Were So Young

The movie sheds light on a real-life white-slavery ring uncovered in Rio de Janeiro involving kidnapped European women sold into the South American sex market, highlighting the issue of human trafficking and exploitation of vulnerable women. Mannequins für Rio is a 1954 English-language Adventure Crime film starring Scott Brady, Raymond Burr, Johanna Matz, Ingrid Stenn, Gisela Fackeldey, Kurt Meisel and Gerhard Wendland. The movie is based on an outline prepared from official documents by Jacques Companeez with the cooperation of Interpol Paris. Corona Filmproduktion was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Kurt Neumann. The movie is directed by Kurt Neumann. Lippert Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Mannequins für Rio was released on 20th October 1954 and takes a screen time of 80 minutes. The screenplay for the movie was written by Felix L tzkendorf, Kurt Neumann and Dalton Trumbo and Michael Wilson. Cinematography was done by Ekkehard Kyrath and editing by Eva Kroll. The music was composed by Michael Jary.