🎬 Documentary

Australia

"the chronicles of a delayed success"

⭐ 8.0/10 2009 1h 4m Dir. Claudiu Mitcu

About this movie

How do seven young people, former street children from Romania, get to see the Pacific Ocean? On 1 December 2008, a Romanian national team participates for the first time in the Homeless World Cup in Melbourne, Australia. The film follows the team from the formation of the squad to the end of the championship. The young people are from Timisoara and Arad, runaway children who now live in abandoned houses or who have managed to get a job and live in rented accommodation after going through orphanages or prisons. After taking a beating from many teams, the young Romanians manage to beat the USA. They are happy. They are all thinking of never going "home" again. It's warm and nice here, the people are nice. "In case I stay, I kissed you all!" says one of them cautiously. But after taking pictures of themselves on the beach with the ocean behind them and beautiful girls by their side, the seven return to Romania and get on with their lives.

Quick facts

Year
2009
Runtime
1h 4m
TMDB Rating
⭐ 8.0/10
Votes
2
Genre
Documentary
Director
Language
RO

Cast

🎭 Documentary 🎬 Claudiu Mitcu 👤 Florin Batrinu 👤 Vasile Bereghi 👤 Beniamin Calancea
competition world cup homelessness football (soccer) romanian new wave street football (soccer)

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Australia has a runtime of 1h 4m (1 hour and 4 minutes).
Australia was directed by Claudiu Mitcu and released in 2009.
Australia is a Documentary film (2009).
The cast of Australia includes Florin Batrinu, Vasile Bereghi, Beniamin Calancea, Pavel Calancea, Claudiu Kostity.
Australia has a TMDB rating of 8.0/10 based on 2 votes.

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