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Basements on Dybenko Street

Basements on Dybenko Street

2004•1h 53m
DocumentaryTV Movie

In the Russian city of St. Petersburg, in the Dybenko basements, drug addict children survive by taking drugs. This is an attempt to look into this terrible world from the inside.

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