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Children Underground is an American 2001 documentary film directed and produced by Edet Belzberg. The film which is set in Bucharest, Romania, explores the lives of five children who are shown fighting, abusing themselves, and becoming addicted to Aurolac.
This situation was presented in a 2001 documentary called Children Underground, which depicted the life of Romanian street children.
The 2001 documentary film Children Underground documents the plight of Romanian street children, in particular their struggles with malnutrition, sexual exploitation, and substance abuse. In the 1990s, street children were often seen begging, inhaling 'aurolac' from sniffing bags, and roaming around the Bucharest Metro. In the 21st century, the ...
3 gru 2023 · BUCHAREST -- The fall of communism in Romania decades ago lifted the lid on the country's infamous network of orphanages, shocking the world with images of dirty and underfed children, most...
6 lip 2002 · “Children Underground” focuses on five children: Cristina, 16, a refugee from an orphanage and an insane asylum who both bullies and nurtures the younger children; Ana, 10, and Marian, her...
6 sty 2020 · Some 100,000 children were packed into orphanages in appalling conditions. The consequences of this dark period remain highly visible in Romania today, as our correspondents report.
This astonishingly intimate documentary follows five homeless children in Romania, where the collapse of communism has led to a life on the street for 20,000 children.
