Bucharest

Bucharest (Romanian: Bucure?ti) is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania, located in the southeast of the country, on the Dâmbovi?a river. The city proper has a population of 2,082,000 inhabitants, together with the metropolitan area comprising approximately 2.3 million people.

Portrayal in film and fiction

• The American-produced Romanian-language documentary Children Underground (2000) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264476/ portrays the lives of homeless children in Bucharest.
• The Romanian-language film Filantropica ("Philanthropy", 2002) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0314067/ gives a satiric portrayal of the city and of many strata of its life.
• The English-language film The Wild Dogs (2002) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290930/ gives a more uniformly bleak portrait of the city.