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In Russia, Every Orphan Longs for Adoption. Vanya Has Other Plans...To Find His Mother At All CostsPlot:
Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
6 wins moreUser Comments:
A Film of Great Beauty, Sadness and Heart moreCast
(Credited cast)| Kolya Spiridonov | ... | Vanya Solntsev | |
| Mariya Kuznetsova | ... | Madam | |
| Nikolai Reutov | ... | Grisha | |
| Yuri Itskov | ... | Headmaster | |
| Denis Moiseenko | ... | Kolyan | |
| Sasha Sirotkin | ... | Sery | |
| Polina Vorobieva | ... | Nataha | |
| Olga Shuvalova | ... | Irka | |
| Dima Zemlyanko | ... | Anton | |
| Dariya Lesnikova | ... | Mukhin's Mother | |
| Rudolf Kuld | ... | Guard | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Vladimir Shipov | ... | Bloke | |
| Andrei Yelizarov | ... | Timokha | |
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90 min | Canada:99 min (Toronto International Film Festival)Country:
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I saw "The Italian" with a friend I have known for 40 years. He has two sons, now grown up. I could only think about how lucky they are. We and the entire audience were deeply affected by this story of the effects of poverty, abandonment, the market for children, and the inexplicable drive of boys to return to their mothers, even when they have been sent away by them. The performance of the little boy who plays the central character is astonishing, absolutely remarkable. The director is a magician. The desolation of person and of place is captured in such a way that disbelief is almost total that such things can still be ongoing in this world of great wealth, albeit selectively concentrated . All of the actors, all little boys, two young girls and a few young boys in their teens--all are so engaging that we are stunned by the loss their characters and the real little boys whose story the writer and director tell suffer. This is 2007, the film was finished in 2005 and set only three years earlier. We wonder, How can this happen to little boys, and girls? And what effects follow? We see some of those effects in the older children. Then one recalls that this sort of thing is not limited to Russia but is common here in the States and all over the world a reality--the turning of an unwanted life into dross by neglect and abandonment. Every mother and father should see this film and then go to their son and tell him how much they love him, and think about little boys languishing in orphanages. One wants to do something after seeing this film, anything to relieve such boys of their horrific fate. Their tenderness for each other is stressed by the filmmakers. This is something that bears remembering. When kids aren't taken care of, they do find ways of caring for each other. They are resourceful in face of neglect, punishments, indifference, poverty. But many fall to pieces.... That now and again one little boy MAY NOT have been destroyed utterly in this way, as suggested in this film, is the source of the film's beauty. The face of the little boy here is unforgettable. The suggestion of a life having been wasted reflects and is reflected by the setting. One can only ope that the film will be widely seen.