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TV·2005–2007·2 seasons, 20 episodes·VTM·Drama·50m·Created by Mark Punt, Guy Goossens

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Each year hundreds of women are taken from their homes and forced into a life of prostitution and sexual slavery. This is the story of ten of them. A Belgian criminal gang head east to Lithuania to recruit young women desperate to leave their impoverished lives. Promising a glamorous life as members of a stage dance troupe, the girls are eager to sign up. From the training in Cyprus, to the strip clubs and illegal brothers in Belgium, the girls from the start are forced into a life of rape, abuse, murder and misery. The police are slow and corrupt, and the gangsters are always one step ahead of the law.

Castfull cast & details

Peter Van den BeginPeter Van den BeginRay Van MechelenAxel DaeseleireAxel DaeseleireJan VerplanckeLuk WynsLuk WynsEddy StoefsVeerle De JongheVeerle De JongheEsther Van de WalleManou KerstingManou KerstingDanny BolsTom Van DyckTom Van DyckVincent DockxStany CretsStany CretsClem De DonderHilde HeijnenHilde HeijnenLaura Keyser

Episodes by season

Season0110Episodes2005Aired—Season avg
  1. S01E01Matroesjka's S01E01Aflevering 1January 5, 2005—Women trader Ray Van Mechelen and his companion Mark Camps organize dance auditions in Vilnius, Lithuania. They claim to be recruiting dance
  2. S01E02Matroesjka's S01E02Aflevering 2January 12, 2005—On the Greek island of Cyprus, the recruited dancers take part in 'dance education sessions', and all illusions of a bright and fortunate fu
  3. S01E03Matroesjka's S01E03Aflevering 3January 19, 2005—
  4. S01E04Matroesjka's S01E04Aflevering 4February 2, 2005—
  5. S01E05Matroesjka's S01E05Aflevering 5February 9, 2005—
  6. S01E06Matroesjka's S01E06Aflevering 6February 16, 2005—
  7. S01E07Matroesjka's S01E07Aflevering 7February 23, 2005—
  8. S01E08Matroesjka's S01E08Aflevering 8March 2, 2005—
  9. S01E09Matroesjka's S01E09Aflevering 9March 9, 2005—
  10. S01E10Matroesjka's S01E10Aflevering 10March 16, 2005—

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0210Episodes2006–07Aired—Season avg
  1. S02E01Matroesjka's S02E01Aflevering 1March 1, 2006—Ray Van Mechelen and Eddy Stoefs are released from jail after three years and discover their former partner-in-crime Jan Verplancke took all
  2. S02E02Matroesjka's S02E02Aflevering 2November 5, 2006—
  3. S02E03Matroesjka's S02E03Aflevering 3November 12, 2006—
  4. S02E04Matroesjka's S02E04Aflevering 4November 19, 2006—
  5. S02E05Matroesjka's S02E05Aflevering 5November 26, 2006—
  6. S02E06Matroesjka's S02E06Aflevering 6December 3, 2006—
  7. S02E07Matroesjka's S02E07Aflevering 7December 10, 2006—
  8. S02E08Matroesjka's S02E08Aflevering 8December 17, 2006—
  9. S02E09Matroesjka's S02E09Aflevering 9January 7, 2007—
  10. S02E10Matroesjka's S02E10Aflevering 10January 14, 2007—

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