Loveletters from a Children's prison is part one of the Russian trilogy Children of Perestroika.
Loveletters from a Children's Prison brings us into a prison for teenagers. Many of the boys here will spend most of their lives in jail, convicted for hard crime – murders, rapes and robbery. The main reason why they are here is poverty, alcoholism, the weakness or absence of their families, and that they see no posibility of a decent future. Thousands of young boys, living on the edge of society, are fighting to survive from one week to the next.
The film relates the story of a girl in love with a boy who is convicted for murder. They are writing love letters. She is trying to make him a better human, - to prepare him for a new life outside the walls. But his fellow prisoners are teenage murderers and rapists, and their influence on him is devastating.
The film is about hope, love and young men that has become totally brutalized. Will our young man end up as the others, or is there a posibility that Ira can save him with her love?
Producer: Dag Hoel
Director: David Kinsella
Photo: David Kinsella
Research: Anna Sirota
Manuscript:: Anna Sirota
Shooting: To be terminated by June 2005
Format : DV-CAM & digital stills, 4:3
Editing: Gekko Film, Anders Aas
To be terminated by 01.08.2005
Ready for broadcast:: 01.12.2005
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