Here's "Pa-ra-da" when not in use to fingerprint Roma children
Parada tells the true story of the clown Miloud Oukili road, he arrived in Romania in 1992, three years after the end of the Ceausescu dictatorship, and his meeting with the children of the manholes, so-called "boskettari". And 'the story of' friendship between a gang of kids between the ages of three and sixteen years old and the young French Algerian clown Miloud, in his early twenties. The children live with beggars, as strays, they sleep in the underground of Bucharest, in large ducts where they pass the pipes for heating and surviving on petty theft, begging and prostitution. Runaway children are from orphanages or indifferent or desperate poverty of families, children living in crowded underground, the network of channels, cartoons and putrid mattresses, dirty environments and suffocating.
Miloud cultivates the mad dream of coming into contact with these boys, and diffident hardened by their dramatic experience of fighting, violence, bereavement, child abuse and drugs. He uses his charisma and his stubbornness to penetrate the wall of suspicion with which they defend themselves and to get them out of their condition and bring them to a decent life. Teaching activities and circus clown, and returning them to sunlight, it gives them hope in a future existence.
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