I am watching a Russian Movie called 'The Italian'
It is the story of a boy in a Russian orphanage and he is going to be adopted by an Italian couple. He is the envy of the other boys. The orphanage is a grim place. The Russian landscape is cold and forbidding. Vanya dreams of the mother who was supposed to have abandoned him. Not long after while his adoption is being processed a woman comes to the orphanage looking for a boy who was adopted out overseas a few months previously. She is driven away and commits suicide by throwing herself under a... Sign in to see full entry.