Review of The Children of Leningradsky

I saw this on Cinemax this morning, January 13, 2005. It is one of the most powerful films I have ever seen. The end when we learn that Tanya has died, and we see the people who may be her parents crying around her little casket infuriated me. How dare they act like that, when they didn't care for her when she was alive. They did not have the right to cry for her when they allowed her to live in the sewers the way they did. That beautiful little girl, raped and left to live like an animal. Things like this should never happen to children anywhere. The more I think about it the madder I get. There is one scene where a little boy is letting his puppy drink water from his mouth because he does not have a bowl for the water. The filth these children are covered with, and the way the older ones take from the younger smaller ones is a horror to see. And the abuse by the police does not make it any better for them.