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8.3/10   157 votes
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Plot:
AIDS, drug abuse, police brutality, and other social ills in post-Soviet Russia. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins more
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Blood-chilling, terrifying... more

Additional Details

Also Known As:
Dzieci z Leningradzkiego (Poland) (informal literal title)
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Runtime:
35 min
Country:
Poland
Color:
Color
Filming Locations:
Moscow, Russia

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Featured in The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) (TV) more

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22 out of 25 people found the following comment useful:-
Blood-chilling, terrifying..., 9 May 2005
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Author: el_monty_BCN from Barcelona, Spain

This is a warning: Approach this documentary with great care. Depicting the daily miseries of orphans of Moscow who lead lives that we could not imagine even in our worst nightmares, it is horror in its purest state, so heart-wrenching that you will have to make an effort to be able to watch it from start to finish without having to look away. Images that will probably haunt you for a long time, if not forever. God, I can feel my eyes welling up just remembering them... It is unbelievable that these horrors, which seem to be a tale from centuries ago, are allowed to take place every day, not just in this wretched 21st century world, but so close to us rich westerners, in a European city which has never been considered to be in "the third world".

Near the end, one of the characters says something like "God loves everybody, not just the Russians; he even loves the Chechens; but, most of all, he loves the children". It sounds to me like the best advice Mr. Putin could ever receive. And these words of wisdom don't come from a cultivated analyst, they come from an abandoned child who dwells in the streets of the same city he lives in...

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