The Children of Leningradsky
Dzieci z Leningradzkiego
The Children of Leningradsky Free Online HD on Lookmovie. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Soviet Union. In the streets of Moscow alone there are over 30,000 surviving in this manner at the present time. The makers of the documentary film concentrated on a community of homeless children living hand to mouth in the Moscow train station Leningradsky. Eight-year-old Sasha, eleven-year-old Kristina, thirteen-year-old Misha and ten-year-old Andrej all dream of living in a communal home. They spend winter nights trying to stay warm by huddling together on hot water pipes and most of their days are spent begging. Andrej has found himself here because of disagreements with his family. Kristina was driven into this way of life by the hatred of her stepmother and twelve-year-old Roma by the regular beatings he received from his constantly drunk father. "When it is worst, we try to make money for food by prostitution," admits ...
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: Poland
- Director: Hanna Polak
- Cast:
Comment
Related Movies
- 1997
The Story of Mothers & Daughters
The Story of Mothers & Daughters8.51997HD
This poignant documentary from directors Judith Leonard, Catherine Ryan and Gary Weimberg explores the rich complexity of mother-daughter...
![The Story of Mothers & Daughters]()
- 1976
Kristina Talking Pictures
Kristina Talking Pictures4.21976HD
Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreographer. Kristina, now a middle-class NYC artist...
![Kristina Talking Pictures]()
- 1958
O Seasons, O Castles
O Seasons, O Castles6.41958HD
A short documentary on the chateaux of the Loire in France was commissioned by the French Tourist Bureau.
![O Seasons, O Castles]()
- 2013
Judgement in Hungary
Judgement in Hungary02013HD
Hungary was the site of serial murders on ethnic basis. Over the course of one year, the murderers killed and seriously injured Roma children and...
![Judgement in Hungary]()
- 1998
Free Tibet
Free Tibet81998HD
A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.
![Free Tibet]()
- 2013
Displaced Perssons
Displaced Perssons72013HD
Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daughters. Trouble starts when the girls grow up and...
![Displaced Perssons]()
- 2013
The Story of a Butcher Shop
The Story of a Butcher Shop5.22013HD
The Kitades run a butcher shop in Kaizuka City outside Osaka, raising and slaughtering cattle to sell the meat in their store. The seventh generation...
![The Story of a Butcher Shop]()
- 2008
American Teen
American Teen6.42008HD
A documentary on seniors at a high school in a small Indiana town and their various cliques.
![American Teen]()
- 1990
Video Toy Chest
Video Toy Chest01990HD
Promotional video that came from local Child World/Children's Palace toy store chains in a box that included a bag of Krunchers potato chips. The...
![Video Toy Chest]()
- 2009
Changing the Conversation: America's Gun Violence Epidemic
Changing the Conversation: America's Gun Violence Epidemic7.52009HD
Re-framing the U.S. gun violence debate from Second Amendment rights to public health prevention.
![Changing the Conversation: America's Gun Violence Epidemic]()
- 2006
Deliver Us from Evil
Deliver Us from Evil7.12006HD
Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church...
![Deliver Us from Evil]()
- 2006
49 Up
49 Up7.42006HD
49 Up is the seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago when UK-based Granada's World in Action team, inspired by the...
![49 Up]()
