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Teenagers (Пацаны)

German title: Pazany (Jungen)
Francaise title: Les Garnements
Russian title: Пацаны
Original title: Пацаны

Drama – USSR
Production year: 1983
Movie length: 97 minutes

Director: Dinara Asanova (Динара Асанова),
Writer: Yuri Klepikov (Юрий Клепиков),
Cinematograph: Juri Veksler (Юрий Векслер),
Music: Viktor Kisin (Виктор Кисин), Vitali Tchernitski (Виталий Черницкий),

Movie description:

A former athlete runs a camp dedicated to reforming juvenile criminals, a tough job with no quick payoffs.

In this standard, serious film about why teenagers or pre-teens go wrong and what can be done to help them, immoral or corrupt parents are as much at fault as the teens themselves. An idealistic camp counselor takes on several of the boys who want to be helped and installs them at his sports camp in the wilderness, generally bending to the teens’ wishes whenever possible. At first his liberal-minded attitude backfires because the boys continue their antisocial behavior either out of habit, or just to spite him. Eventually, when the counselor is about to call it quits, the teens rally around him because whether he was aware of it or not, his own decent behavior was having an effect right along.

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