Children Underground
Closed CaptioningEdet Belzberg
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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, CHILDREN UNDERGROUND 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. CHILDREN UNDERGROUND won the Sundance Film Festival's Jury Prize, the International Documentary Association's Documentary Award, and the Gotham Awards' Documentary Achievement Prize.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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94%- Reviews Counted: 17
- Fresh: 16
- Rotten: 1
- Average Rating: 7.5/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: A singularly depressing film.
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.
Fresh: A horror story, told with Dickensian compassion, permeating outrage, and little hope.
Fresh: A heartrending act of courage in the guise of a documentary film.
Customer Reviews
Important
I have watched countless documentaries and this is one of my top 3 favorites. It's so disturbing and upsetting I was unable to sleep after watching it. However, I think it is important for people to see it. It makes you realize how good you have it, and it makes you want to do something to help these children.
Pure sadness
This is my favorite documentary yet not for enjoyment purposes for the realization of how blind we are to so many unfortunate people. Typically I have seen hardship stories about adults but watching pure innocent abandoned children was just so heartbreaking.
sad, but much left wanting...
A film on abondoned or run-away street-kids really has little choice but to confront the intrinsic despair of such situations... so, yes, it is definitely sad. But I feel that it really should have shown more than that. Although a few brief backgrounds of the kids were developed, a few of their hopes were explored, and a few were followed attempting a return home, or possible life at a shelter, for the majority of time, it's just a film showing kids arranging card-board beds, huffing paint, and cursing/fighting within their group.
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