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Ghosts (2006)

Adventure, Drama | UK

Director: Nick Broomfield

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Rating: 7.4/10

User rating: 7.8/10
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SYNOPSIS

A young girl, Ai Qin, pays $25,000 to be smuggled into the UK in order to support her family back in China. She is forced to live with eleven other Chinese in a small house in Thetford, Norfolk, working in factories and fields preparing food. The film was inspired by the Morecambe Bay tragedy of 2004, when a gang of Chinese cockle-pickers found themselves trapped tide coming in.

Actors

Writer: Nick Broomfield, Jez Lewis

RUNTIME: 96 min

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