Children Underground
Documentary
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2001
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Children Underground follows the story of five street children, aged eight to sixteen who live in a subway station in Bucharest, Romania. The street kids are encountered daily by commuting adults, who pass them by in the station as they starve, swindle, and steal, all while searching desperately for a fresh can of paint to get high with.
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Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
104 min
Release date:
19 Sep 2001
Languages:
Romanian
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 4 wins & 2 nominations.
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
A singularly depressing film.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
19 Sep 2001
fresh:
A heartrending act of courage in the guise of a documentary film.
– Jan Stuart,
Newsday,
19 Sep 2001
fresh:
Edet Belzberg's fearless aesthetic is also a measure of her film's brilliant indictment of any society that can allow its most vulnerable to slip into oblivion.
– Robert Koehler,
Variety,
24 Sep 2001
fresh:
Heartbreaking, urgent, unsentimental and unflinching.
– Geoff Pevere,
Toronto Star,
18 Jan 2002
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Almost unbearably sad.
– Peter Rainer,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
16 Jun 2002