Helping Mihaela

Helping Mihaela

2011•1h 36m•6.0/10

Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.0/10(1)

A Roma beggar on his knees raises many extreme emotions: guilt, rage, sympathy and frustration. Most people just walk on by, but there is always someone willing to help. In this film, the director follows the confrontations between the Roma beggars from Romania and Finnish people, and is forced to question, over and over again, her own ideas about helping.

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Production

Avanton Productions

Language

FI

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Hanna Maylett

Narrator (voice)

Mihaela Stoica

Self

Pirjo Hongisto

Self

Virginia Moldovan

Self - Mihaela Stoica's Grandmother

Zobar Moldovan

Self - Virginia Moldovan's Nephew

Marjatta Vesalainen

Self - Bachelor of Social Services

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