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Actors: Oksana Orlenko, Nickolai Stoilov
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Lana's Rain |
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Lana's Rain
Directed by Michael S. Ojeda, 2004
Staring Oksana Orlenko and Nickolai Stoilov
The movie opens in war torn Bosnia in the early 1990s. Lana (Oksana Orlenko) arrives at a field hospital in a war damaged building in a small village seeking her brother Darko Lucev whom she has not seen in nine years. It is quickly apparent that Darko is one of the many gangster opportunists operating freely in the war ravaged land. Darko has some enemies among rival gangs and is getting ready to flee the country. He has $20,000 and an escape route all laid out and asks his sister to join him in his flight to America. With no surviving family except Darko, Lana joins him and travels to America in a freight container on a German ship.
Upon arriving in Chicago, Darko tricks Lana into thinking that she has lost the suitcase containing his twenty-thousand dollars. He then convinces her that their only hope for survival is by her becoming a prostitute. Having previously been raped in Bosnia, Lana had dreamed of her next sexual encounter as being with a man she loved. It soon becomes clear that Darko is set on a life of crime and that Lana is simply a means to help him start his criminal empire. Lana's goals are just the opposite as she wants to lead a "clean life" (as she puts it) and enjoy the freedom and opportunity America offers. She struggles to teach herself English from children's books she has collected from the trash. But Darko cruelly confiscates and destroys them. Despite Darko, Lana does learn English, but he adapts by paring her with another prostitute he has recruited and changing his business from street prostitution to a higher class "European Escort Service". Lana eventually comes to the realization that, even though Darko is her only family, all she can expect from him is a life of degregation and violence. She then plots her escape and revenge.
This is an independent American film with foreign actors in the lead roles. It starts out in Serbian with English sub-titles but gradually changes to English as Lana becomes proficient in it.
--Chuck Nugent, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- present (2000-2010)
Family, struggling with
Yes
Struggle with:
- Brother
War impact on civilians/veterans
Yes
Job/Profession/Poverty Story?
Yes
Job:
- prostitute
Kind of conflict:
- war (general)
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Body type
- (man) muscular
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Eastern European
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- Chicago
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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