Original title: Italianetz
Directors: Kravchuk, Andrei
Cast: With Kolya Spiridonov, Denis Moiseen
Russia 2002 | Colour | 99 mins
Avaliable on: DVD
The Italian addresses the urgent issue of illegal adoption in Russia, which has become a well-documented international crisis. The film is based on the true story of an abandoned six-year-old boy, Vanya Solntsev, who rejects adoption by an affluent Italian couple and, instead, embarks on a dangerous search for his birth mother.