---
title: 'Lilya 4-ever (2002)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Lukas Moodysson'
released: '2002-08-23'
runtime_minutes: 109
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Crime'
countries:
  - 'Estonia'
  - 'Denmark'
  - 'Sweden'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/lilya-4-ever-2002'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300140/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Lilya 4-ever (2002)

2002 · 109 min · Drama, Crime · Estonia, Denmark, Sweden

Original title: Lilja 4-ever

## Synopsis

Lilya 4-ever is a 2002 Swedish tragedy film, mostly spoken in Russian, written and directed by Lukas Moodysson which was released in Sweden on 23 August 2002. It depicts the tragic downward spiral of Lilja Michailova, played by Oksana Akinshina, a teenage girl in one of the post-Soviet republics whose mother abandons her to move to the United States. The story is loosely based on the true case of Danguolė Rasalaitė, and examines the issue of human trafficking and sexual slavery.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Lukas Moodysson](https://cinepixo.com/people/lukas-moodysson)
- **Screenplay:** [Lukas Moodysson](https://cinepixo.com/people/lukas-moodysson)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Nathan Larson](https://cinepixo.com/people/nathan-larson)
- **Producer:** [Lars Jönsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/lars-jonsson), [Tomas Eskilsson](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomas-eskilsson)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ulf Brantås](https://cinepixo.com/people/ulf-brantas)
- **Editor:** [Michal Leszczylowski](https://cinepixo.com/people/michal-leszczylowski), [Bernhard Winkler](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernhard-winkler)

## Cast

- [Artyom Bogucharsky](https://cinepixo.com/people/artyom-bogucharsky)
- [Elina Benenson](https://cinepixo.com/people/elina-benenson)
- [Madis Kalmet](https://cinepixo.com/people/madis-kalmet)
- [Herardo Contreras](https://cinepixo.com/people/herardo-contreras)
- [Oksana Akinshina](https://cinepixo.com/people/oksana-akinshina)
- [Pavel Ponomaryov](https://cinepixo.com/people/pavel-ponomaryov)
- [Tõnu Kark](https://cinepixo.com/people/tonu-kark)
- [Anastassia Bedredinova](https://cinepixo.com/people/anastassia-bedredinova)
- [Tamara Solodnikova](https://cinepixo.com/people/tamara-solodnikova)
- [Yevgeni Gurov](https://cinepixo.com/people/yevgeni-gurov)
- [Johan Edlund](https://cinepixo.com/people/johan-edlund)
- [Lyubov Agapova](https://cinepixo.com/people/lyubov-agapova)
- [Nikolai Bentsler](https://cinepixo.com/people/nikolai-bentsler)
- [Bo Christer Hjelte](https://cinepixo.com/people/bo-christer-hjelte)
- [Tomasz Neuman](https://cinepixo.com/people/tomasz-neuman)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/lilya-4-ever-2002
Film facts: Wikidata (Q1142950); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.