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HOME ALONE A ROMANIAN TRAGEDY

By Ionut CARPATOREA

Social issues - Completed 2010

This is the story of over 350.000 Romanian children left “home alone”. One or both their parents are working abroad, in Italy, Spain and other Western Europe countries. The kids were left to be taken care of by relatives or even neighbors. Many of them committed or attempted suicide.

- Year of production
- 2010
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- ROMANIA, ITALY, BELGIUM, GERMANY
- Languages
- ROMANIAN
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 54 mn
- Director(s)
- Ionut CARPATOREA
- Producer(s)
- Sorin MANU (Evolution Art & Film)
- Synopsis
- This is the story of over 350.000 Romanian children left “home alone”. One or both their parents are working abroad, in Italy, Spain and other Western Europe countries. The kids were left to be taken care of by relatives or even neighbors. Many of them committed or attempted to commit suicide. How can one explain what they did? What did these kids think? What drove them to the point of losing everything? These are some of the questions that our film will bring to its viewers.