“Edet Belzberg’s Academy Award-nominated directorial debut, CHILDREN UNDERGROUND follows a group of homeless children living in a train station in Bucharest, Romania. Raw and insightful, this acclaimed documentary personalizes the often dangerous and always chaotic and uncertain world of youngsters casually abandoned by their families and society at large. It also subtlety illustrates the legacy of former Communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Winner of a Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize, the International Documentary Association’s Documentary Award, and the Gotham Awards’ Documentary Achievement Prize.”
Picture quality is bad…but it’s a good documentary.
I remember all of the kids huffing spray paint in downtown Bucharest. It was a very depressing sight.
I’ll bet it was. This is a rather grim documentary, for sure.
I’d heard a bit about it, originally on BoyChat […and they claim we don’t care about kids…]…Then finally got a chance to watch it, about a year ago.