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A Children's Story is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Antonio Frazzi with Rolando Ravello
A Children's Story (2004)
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Add to a movie listA Children’s Story (Italian: Certi bambini), also known as Certain Children in Australia, was directed by Andrea and Antonio Frazzi in 2004 and is an Italian film which focuses on the life of an eleven-year-old boy growing up in an environment of poverty and criminality in Naples. This was the second film to be made by the Frazzi twins, Il cielo cade (starring Isabella Rossellini and Jeroen Krabbé) having been released in the year 2000. It was to be Andrea Frazzi’s last film; he died in May 2006.
Certi bambini was awarded the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2004.
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Un orphelin de 11 ans, livré à lui-même dans les rues de Naples - mais la violence ambiante pourrait être celle de la banlieue de Marseille ou des favelas de Rio - mène un combat désespéré à chaque instant de sa jeune existence. Il est une proie rêvée pour le chef de la camorra locale qui a de grands projets pour lui.Actors
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