a| FL Record f| 1541

a| Westmeier, Alexandra, e| director.

a| Alone in Four Walls

a| Allein in vier Wänden

a| DVD-ROM (85 min.)

a| Moving image

a| Verzio Film Festival Submission

a| Alexandra Westmeier explores the lives of juvenile felons aged 10 to 14. In Russia, lawbreakers can be tried and convicted as adults at the age of fifteen; younger offenders are given reduced sentences and sent to juvenile detention facilities. Some of the inmates we meet are serving time for theft, some for murder. “They’re animals, not children” – cries out the mother of a murdered teenager. But are they? The director provides glimpses of their home lives, and we begin to realize that, for these children, a correctional facility is sometimes an easier place to be. They are children who never had a childhood and who often take pride in permanent reminders of their criminal pasts: This tattoo means ‘alone among friends’, this one is ‘alone in four walls’ and this star is ‘I’ll never fall on my knees in front of a cop’, says one. Filmmaker Alexandra Westmeier spends enough time with them to see the scared boys beyond the appearance of ‘hard men’. As the merciless statistic shows, over 90% of them will get behind bars again.

a| Verzio Film Festival Submission

a| Documentary films

c| 32482 d| 32482

a| Germany : b| Westmeier, Inigo ; Westmeier, Alexandra, c| 2007.

a| rus j| eng

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