Caught in the Net
by
Vít Klusák
Border Lines
A large estimated number of children are confronted with sexual harassment on the Internet. In order to document the immense extent of online abuse, a Czech film team dares to conduct a controversial experiment: they engage three adult actresses pretending to be 12-year-old girls on social media platforms and wait. The result is shocking: in just ten days, almost 2500 men check in. The filmmakers expose their perfidious procedures in digital space – and accompany the actresses to physical meetings. In their taboo-breaking documentary CAUGHT IN THE NET, directors Vít Klusák and Barbora Chalupová use radical methods to demonstrate the threats to which children are exposed on the Internet.
- Genre: DOC: Social & Human Interest
- Country, Year: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Switzerland, 2020
- Runtime: 100 Min
- Languages: Czech
- Subtitles: German
- Creators: Vít Klusák
- Directors: Vít Klusák, Barbora Chalupová
- Cast: Tereza Těžká, Anežka Pithartová, Sabina Dlouhá
- Screenplay: Barbara Chalupová, Vít Klusák
- Cinematography: Adam Kruliš
- Editor: Vít Klusák
- Sound: Adam Bláha
- Music: Pjoni
- Producers: Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda, Peter Kerekes, Pavla Klimešová
- Production Companies: Hypermarket Films, Peter Kerekes Film, Hélium Films, Ceská Televize
- World Sales: Autlook Filmsales GmbH
- Swiss Distribution: Elite Film AG
