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7.3/10   173 votes
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8 January 1999 (Austria) more
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12 Geschichten vom Überleben
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A "portrait" of people who live precariously, but with an unusual level of resourcefulness and imagination, in Bombay, New York, Moskou and Mexico City. full summary | add synopsis
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4 wins more
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groovy landfill bangra more (9 total)

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90 min
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El Amor de mi Vida more

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6 out of 6 people found the following review useful.
groovy landfill bangra, 17 October 2000
Author: (janakagoon@postmark.net) from Singapore

This movie documents the lives of the poor and social outcasts in four mega-cities of the world - Mumbai-India, Moscow-Russia, Mexico City-Mexic and New York-USA.

Some of the scenes makes your skin crawl, like the scene where scavengers are wading through an open sewer and the stripper being groped in a peep show club.

Some of the scenes were deeply personal and extremely disturbing.

But the movie had a very acid-wit ending when the credits rolled. In Bollywood movies, you have scenes where there are lots of good looking actors doing a Bangra dance in beautiful landscaped backgrounds. But here the, director got a nicely choreographed Bangra, except instead of a lovely landscaped garden in the background, we have a massive landfill, extending all the way to the horizon, and instead of nicely dressed good looking actors, there are the ordinary, poor, dirty workers and students who live their lives in this terrible place... yet they dance well :)

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