Undesirables
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Marianna Yarovskaya
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In the summer of 1998, as a part of a major drive to clear Moscow's streets of beggars of all ages before the International Youth Olympics, government officials conducted mass deportation of those they consider "undesirable". "Undesirables" exposes Russia's deportation of runaway teen-agers from well-off Moscow to the impoverished Russian provinces. The film depicts Moscow's juvenile detention center, where the police herd children during official events to keep them of the streets. It documents the children's eventually deportation from Moscow back to their abusive families, or to reform schools in the provinces.
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Marianna Yarovskaya
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Winner of the Bronze Medal (Documentary Category) at the 2001 Student Academy Awards by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Shown at AFI/Los Angeles International Film Festival (DOC) October 19-26, 2000.
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