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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Andrei Romanov (writer)
Release Date:
22 September 2005 (Russia) more
Tagline:
In Russia, Every Orphan Longs for Adoption. Vanya Has Other Plans...To Find His Mother At All Costs more
Plot:
Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
6 wins more
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poor Russian orphan spurns wealthy foreigners more (23 total)
Cast
(Credited cast) | Kolya Spiridonov | ... | Vanya Solntsev |
| Mariya Kuznetsova | ... | Madam |
| Nikolay Reutov | ... | Grisha |
| Jurij Ickov | ... | Headmaster |
| Denis Moiseenko | ... | Kolyan |
| Sasha Sirotkin | ... | Sery |
| Polina Vorobieva | ... | Nataha |
 | Olga Shuvalova | ... | Irka |
| Dima Zemlyanko | ... | Anton |
| Dariya Lesnikova | ... | Mukhin's Mother |
| Rudolf Kuld | ... | Guard |
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| Vladimir Shipov | ... | Bloke |
| Andrei Yelizarov | ... | Timokha |
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Also Known As:
Итальянец (Russia)
The Italian (USA) (new title)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some violence, sexual content, language and thematic issues.
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90 min | Canada:99 min (Toronto International Film Festival)
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1.66 : 1 more
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Sweden:7 | Australia:M | Singapore:PG | Brazil:12 | Japan:PG-12 | USA:PG-13
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Russia's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 78th Annual Academy Awards (2006) more
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An earlier posting compared this film with Spielberg's "AI", a robotic boy with artificial intelligence with the capacity to form emotional bonds, a sort of interesting point, as this film itself aims a bit lower than the intelligentsia level, more at gut level emotions, since its main character is a young boy in a rundown Russian orphanage who spurns the rich Italian couple who wants to adopt him in favor of going on a treacherous journey to find his mother. And to throw a few more logs on the flames of passion, the orphanage's director collects a nice sum for adoptions of poor Russian youth by wealthy foreigners, and hence sets out with her part-time lover and assistant to trail and apprehend the kid with the help of the police, whom she pays off, as he searches for his mom. It doesn't fail to be moving, but in the department of originality, it utilizes a lot of the usual devices as it goes through its well-presented drama.