"They're up to their old tricks"01 December 2011Factual80 mins
Sisters doing it for themselves in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over fifty years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps, ran their own brothel, and set up the first informal trade union for prostitutes. They are familiar faces in Amsterdam's Red Light District, but soon they will bid their farewells. The Ladies Fokkens is a portrait of these remarkable women, as well as a history of the Red Light District over the past fifty years.
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Meet the Fokkens (Ouwehoeren) English trailer
"In the old days the local copper would tap on the window if a girl was showing too much ankle now the girls deal coke from their cubicles." Louise and Martine ...
IDFA 2011 | Trailer | Meet the Fokkens
World premiere at IDFA 2013 The life stories of prostitute twin sisters Martine and Louise Fokkens provide a ...
Meet The Fokkens - Trailer
Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over 40 years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps ran ...
Meet The Fokkens - Trailer
Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over 40 years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps ran ...
Louise and Martine Fokkens are identical twins. For over 40 years they were working as prostitutes. They freed themselves from the control of their pimps ran ...
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