Children Underground

Name: Children Underground
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 19, 2001
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 85

2001

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Childhope International | Release Date: September 19, 2001

Summary: This political documentary focuses on homeless children living in the subway tunnels of Bucharest, Romania.

Director: Edet Belzberg

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 104 min

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Robert Koehler

Belzberg's unsparing camera sometimes portrays a level of cruelty that tests viewers' tolerance, but her fearless aesthetic is also a measure of the film's brilliant indictment of any society that can allow its most vulnerable to slip into oblivion. Read full review

Ed Park

A horror story, told with Dickensian compassion, permeating outrage, and little hope. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Belzberg doesn't intervene during the moments of violence, believing that the film can force social change only by showing the worst. If she is correct, then this film should move mountains. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

First-time filmmaker Edet Belzberg may be the first person to assign any value to the lives of the homeless Romanian youngsters featured in her harrowing documentary.

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Homelessness is all too familiar to many inhabitants of the world's wealthiest cities, but rarely has the situation seemed so hopeless, or its victims so desperate. Read full review

Stephen Holden

A singularly depressing film. In the face of such unrelieved, grinding poverty, hope fades. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

A powerful piece of filmmaking. Read full review

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SamanthaL.

Sep 5, 2005

It's the best documentary I've ever seen! Amazing piece of work, which tugs at the heart-strings. It makes me want to fly down to Romania & adopt Mihai.

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