Nobody's Children

Mar 3, 1994

1h 35m

★ 4.3

A true story of war torn Romania

Overview

An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.

Genres

Drama

TV Movie

Production Companies

USA Pictures

Filmex Romania

USA Network

Nobody's Children Trailers

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Cast

Carol Stevens

Ann-Margret

Stephanie Vaugier

Dominique Sanda

Corneliu Bratu

Clive Owen

Viorica

Katrin Cartlidge

Joe Stevens

Jay O. Sanders

Sorin Dornescu

Reiner Schöne

Ion

Allan Corduner

Dragan

Valentin Teodosiu

Rob

Sam Douglas

Chief of Demonstrators

Dan Badarau

Grandmother

Monica Ghiuță

Cercel

Felix Totolici

After the revolution of December 1989, Romania is in full transition. Incertainty and chaos have followed Ceausescu's downfall. Fane, a worker in a wharf on the river Danube, is a former dissident who was in involved in politically motivated uprisings. Now that he has achieved what he has fought for, he is unemployed and everything around him seems to fall to pieces. His whole family falls victim to the changes of the early 90s. His daughter prostitutes herself, his elder son ends up in prison and his younger son becomes a thief.

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