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Helping Mihaela
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Helping Mihaela

Sep 22, 2011
1h 36m
★ 6.0

Overview

A Roma beggar on his knees raises many extreme emotions: guilt, rage, sympathy and frustration. Most people just walk on by, but there is always someone willing to help. In this film, the director follows the confrontations between the Roma beggars from Romania and Finnish people, and is forced to question, over and over again, her own ideas about helping.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Avanton Productions

Cast

Hanna Maylett

Narrator (voice)

Hanna Maylett

Mihaela Stoica

Self

Mihaela Stoica

Pirjo Hongisto

Self

Pirjo Hongisto

Virginia Moldovan

Self - Mihaela Stoica's Grandmother

Virginia Moldovan

Zobar Moldovan

Self - Virginia Moldovan's Nephew

Zobar Moldovan

Marjatta Vesalainen

Self - Bachelor of Social Services

Marjatta Vesalainen

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