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Children Underground

2001

Edet Belzberg

Documentary

7.8

210

Documentary The film follows a group of abandoned adolescent street children who live in the Romanian subway system. The street kids are encountered daily with commuter adults passing them by in the station as they starve, swindle, and steal, all while searching desperately for a fresh can of Aurolac silver paint to get high with.

	Media	Author	Review
		Robert Koehler Variety	"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"
		Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"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."
		Stephen Holden The New York Times	"A singularly depressing film. In the face of such unrelieved, grinding poverty, hope fades"
		Peter Rainer Vulture	"This film should move mountains. "

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