Movie #1........................."The Italian"

Movie #1 in Donna Barnes and the Netflix challenge (300 movies in 365 days, to whittle down my Netflix queuel of 500 movies!) ---- "The Italian" I rented because I thought I would see some of Italy (since I will be vacationing there in November), but this movie's location was Russia. It's a russian Oliver Twist and very enjoyable.

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The ItalianItalianetz(2007) PG-13

Six-year-old Vanya (Kolya Spiridonov) is about to be handed every Russian orphan's dream: A loving Italian family wants to adopt him and take him away from the rundown orphanage he calls home. But Vanya can't let go of his yearning for his birth mother. Determined to find her, he runs away and sets off on an adventure that leads him into a mysterious and sometimes perilous world. This moving drama received several international awards.