Committed documentary about a homeless kid living in the subway tunnels below Bucharest. This Nicu has to choose between staying with his criminal gang and starting a ‘normal’ life aboveground.
The homeless kid Nicu is taken under the wings of the notorious ‘King of the Underworld’, Bruce Lee, and starts living with him in the subway tunnels below Bucharest. As Nicu grows up, he begins to realise that his alternative, criminal leader my not be the perfect 'father', but a life aboveground seems a little too hard to reach. When Nicu suddenly falls ill, the committed director of this documentary intervenes: he takes the boy to hospital and makes a shocking discovery there.
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Sound editing
Montage
Muziek
Production company
Grain Media
Revolver Amsterdam
Revolver Amsterdam
Co-production company
Pink
TV company
EO/IKONdocs
Distributor NL
Taskovski Films
Postproduction company
FeverFilm
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