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I Am Kuba (2015)

Documentary | 58 minutes
2,14 7 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 58 minuten

Alternative title: Ik Ben Kuba

Country: Norway / Germany / Poland

Directed by: Åse Svenheim Drivenes

IMDb score: 6,7 (25)

Releasedate: 16 January 2015

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I Am Kuba plot

When the family business goes bankrupt, Kuba (12) and Mikolaj (8)'s parents are forced to leave Poland to look for work abroad. And as long as his parents are not there, Kuba has to take care of his younger brother. Kuba develops into a rebellious teenager, who no longer accepts the responsibility that the adults have placed on his shoulders and rebels, forcing his parents to make drastic decisions.

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cucciolo

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Now this is what I call reality TV. You genuinely just want to follow this family. You almost never get something like this in fiction. Particularly beautiful and touching. How it was possible to film so close to the skin is a mystery to me.

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Robi

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What is actually told here is primarily a harrowing story about two young parents who have to abandon their 8- and 12-year-old children in Poland because they have to work abroad. They cannot find work in Poland. And apparently, that has become quite common in Poland since the communist era. But the children are the ones who suffer the most from this. As a documentary, it is a different story. It is filmed in a very detached and observational manner. If there were no text on screen regularly explaining what is actually happening you are watching, you would probably have hardly any idea as a viewer, and would only see an accumulation of questions. You only see two boys fighting a lot. The mother comes by occasionally. And the father comes once. Furthermore, one of the boys has problems at school. That is all you would understand from the film if those texts were not there. Nothing about the background or the how and why can be gleaned from the images and the conversations. And that is, of course, terrible. This is not a documentary. That is not how it works.

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