The read
A Balasaur Score of 79 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 98%, Metacritic 73/100. Scores higher than 79% of the 1,976 2010s documentary movies in this catalog. Streaming on Tubi.
Synopsis
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's social and political institutions faced massive change, including an increasingly corrupt government and crippled infrastructure. A number of the nation's youth wound up homeless and addicted to a lethal cocktail of injected cold medicine and alcohol. In the early 2000s a pastor from Mariupol named Gennadiy Mokhnenko took up the fight against child homelessness by forcibly abducting street kids and bringing them to his Pilgrim Republic rehabilitation center—the largest organization of its kind in the former Soviet Union. Gennadiy's ongoing efforts and unabashedly tough love approach to his city's problems has made him a folk hero for some, and a lawless vigilante to others. Despite criticism, Gennadiy is determined to continue his work.
Ratings
27 audience votes
Key crew
- Steve HooverWriter
- Steve HooverDirector
- Atticus RossOriginal Music Composer
- Leopold RossOriginal Music Composer
- Bobby KrlicOriginal Music Composer
