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Killing Boys: Russia

A gritty and absorbing film about a street gang of Russian ten year olds that cleans cars, begs, steals and sometimes even murders.
On 23rd February 1994, ten year old Vlodya Jacobs and his gang killed and mutilated a 50 year old man. Police records show that the gang was involved in at least four other killings. This film began as an investigation of homeless children. It became a report on Vlodya, his family, his friends and the reasons why he has committed such grotesque crimes. Popular with the sellers at his local market and generous to other homeless children, it seems inconceivable that he should have beaten a man to death. Sitting in her dirty, ramshackle flat, Vlodya’s mother denies that her sons are criminals. Leafing through a shabby photo album, she recalls the days when they had enough food. Now, she’s surviving on an inadequate pension, having undergone psychiatric tests. Outside in a leafy park, her two eldest sons tell of the money they have stolen from a kiosk stall and admit to pickpocketing and beating up drunks. They describe how they “beat the shit out of one who wouldn’t cough up.” In this vast country who will take pity on the Killing Boys?

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  1. is Russia really that fucked up if you have kids murdering people send em off to the gulags or what ever if there so retarded that can’t stay in school past grade 5 and understand the concept of life and death or the significance of taking a life ship em off to the gulag.

  2. I think after the 2nd child, if they can’t afford to take care of them the parents should be sterilized

  3. So, they kill people but there’s nowhere to put them until they turn 16?
    Mommie Dearest and her little darlings should be composted.
    Someday these boys will breed and I shudder at the thought.