Land of Lost Children
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Land of Lost Children |
| Original title | Nobody's Children |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Wheatley |
| script |
Petru Popescu Iris Friedman |
| production |
Georges Dybman Jeffrey White |
| music | Jean-Claude Petit |
| camera | Franco Di Giacomo |
| cut | John Grover |
| occupation | |
| |
Land of the Lost Children is a US television film from 1994. The drama is about an American couple fighting over the adoption of a Romanian child.
action
The American, childless couple Joe and Carol Stevens traveled to Romania in the early 1990s to adopt an orphan. Bureaucracy and corruption make matters difficult for the couple. In an orphanage, they meet a girl and a boy who are said to be mentally disabled. The next day the boy disappeared. The Stevens' go on a search and cover up the machinations of the corrupt home manager Dr. Preda on.
background
The film first aired on US television on March 3, 1994. It was released in France on February 1, 1995.
reception
TV Spielfilm judged the film as a "realistic drama about (in) humanity" in which the former "sex idol" Ann-Margret "was convincing as a committed fighter for human rights".
The film service judged: "Melodramatic family history based on actual experiences of the people portrayed, who retold the struggle for the youngest victims of the Ceaucescu regime in a mixture of facts and inventions. The Romanian conditions are portrayed intensively and staged, but at the same time with too many melodramatic US television clichés intertwined, so that the important topic is ultimately wasted. "
Web links
Nobody's Children in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Land of the Lost Children , TVSpielfilm.de, accessed on April 15, 2020
- ↑ Land of the Lost Children , filmdienst.de, accessed on April 15, 2020