It is the dead of winter in Moscow, and more than 30,000 children are living on the streets. Theirs is a marginal existence. They sleep in railway stations, stairways and sewers. They spend their days begging, playing, sniffing glue, drinking vodka, and missing their mothers. Many will never see past their 15th birthdays.
After spending time with these children, Hanna Pollack directed a documentary film about their lives, which was just nominated for an Oscar. Hannah takes us inside the train stations and the dark warm corners where the children live. She delivers a picture of their lives that is both brutal and deadly.
Guests:
Hanna Polak, director of “The Children of Leningradsky”;
Fred Weir, Russian Correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor;