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Director Michael Roemer made this documentary about a slum in Palermo, Sicily, for NBC in 1961. NBC never aired it. I saw it years later in a film class at which Roemer showed up and talked about it.
The houses had no running water. They fetched water from one outside spigot. They shat on a railroad track that ran through the center of the slum and occasionally someone would get killed when a train came through. The men got occasional work from the Mafia. The women struggled to raise their children.
The stories of the slum-dwellers are raw and well-told.
It was also titled 'Inferno'.
Robert M. Young returned 30 years later to follow up on some of the people in the documentary 'Children of Fate'.
The houses had no running water. They fetched water from one outside spigot. They shat on a railroad track that ran through the center of the slum and occasionally someone would get killed when a train came through. The men got occasional work from the Mafia. The women struggled to raise their children.
The stories of the slum-dwellers are raw and well-told.
It was also titled 'Inferno'.
Robert M. Young returned 30 years later to follow up on some of the people in the documentary 'Children of Fate'.
- russell-125
- Jul 10, 2006
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