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Killing Boys: Russia
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Killing Boys: Russia

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A gang of homeless ten-year-olds roams the streets of a Russian city, cleaning cars and begging for coins by day. Directed by Olga Konskaya and Andrei Nekrasov, the film follows the case of Vlodya Jacobs and his gang, who beat a 50-year-old man to death in 1994. Interviews with Vlodya's family and friends sit alongside police records and footage of the boys at work on the street, building a picture of children abandoned by their families and left to survive however they can. One boy sums up the logic plainly: "We're not bad kids. We're just hungry." The camera lingers on how ordinary the boys look going about their day, bantering with shopkeepers and passersby, before circling back to what that same routine conceals. The film treats the boys as both offenders and casualties of a system that stopped looking for them, and it leaves the murder itself unresolved as a simple morality tale, closer to a question about what a society owes its most neglected children.