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Raju (2010)

Raju poster
Directed by
Max Zahle
Genre
drama film
Country
Germany
Runtime
24 min
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A German couple adopts a young boy from Calcutta. On the second day, he disappears. They then learn his real parents are alive and he was taken from them. The film shows how they deal with this shock.

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What happens

Raju is a live action short film directed by Max Zähle. It follows a German couple who adopt a little boy who they believe to be an orphan from Calcutta, India. When he goes missing on the second day, they realize that his parents are still alive and that he has been abducted from his family. The story details their dramatic response to the discovery. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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