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Alia (Yvgenya Dobrovolskaya) is a single mother who has no home and no money. Caring for her infant is almost impossible, and she feels that she is doing the best thing for her child and for herself when she abandons it in a public toilet, where it is sure to be found and brought to an orphanage. Later, however, she is overcome with guilt, and a priest suggests she get a job in an orphanage in order to deal with. She succeeds in finding one, and is horrified to discover the abusive and threadbare circumstances the children endure there. Rather than assuaging her guilt, thanks to this job she now has a serious case of righteous anger to cope with as well.
Alla, a lonely, disfigured woman, takes a priest's advice and volunteers at the local orphanage. It's a grim institution, the staff hardened by corruption and contempt for their charges, the facilities barely adequate. But Alla feels for the children and they respond to her warmth. The authority figures are perhaps too harsh, and the kids too cute, but this is a hard-hitting, moving film about the lost souls of the 'New Russia'.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0104963/http://cvmc.net/movie.jsp?movie_id=3513
From what I can tell the Russian DVD was released without subs. This is one of those Russian movies I was referring to when I mused a while back about possible ways to get translations done. Haven't made any progress on that.
This particular link is for what is probably a TVRip (it looks like a logo was removed), but it's all I could find. Don't be fooled by an apparent DVDRip link of 703.29MB, it's a fake (a Russian dub of the Pink Panther).
Like this post to see ed2k links [698.83 MiB]By the way, I should mention this is as much or a bit more a [BM] as a [GM]. The kids are all 3-7 years old.