Children Underground

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Children Underground
DVD cover
Directed by	Edet Belzberg
Produced by	Edet Belzberg
Starring	Cristina Ionescu Mihai Alexandru Tudose
Music by	Joel Goodman
Cinematography	Wolfgang Held
Editing by	Jonathan Oppenheim
Distributed by	Childhope International
Release date(s)	September 19, 2001
Running time	104 min.
Language	Romanian
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Children Underground is a 2001 documentary film directed by Edet Belzberg.

The film follows a group of abandoned adolescent street children who live in the Romanian subway system. The street kids are encountered daily by commuting adults, who passthem by in the station as they starve, swindle, and steal, all while searching desperately for a fresh can of paint to get high with.

One of the children director Belzberg follows is Cristina Ionescu. At first this child may seem to be a young man, but you later find out that girls have to become hard and boyish in order to survive. This is also very apparent with another child named, Violeta 'Macarena' Rosu, who is also a girl. The nickname 'Macarena' derives from the song "Macarena", her favorite.

The film explores the lives of these children, who are shown fighting, abusing themselves, and becoming addicted to inhaling a spray paint called Aurolac.