Pa-Ra-Da, the red nose angel.

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Pa-Ra-Da is not just a movie. Instead it’s a simple movie that tells hard tales. In particular the real story of the street clown Miloud Oukili, young hero of our times.

Miloud is not an ordinary man. Born in Paris in 1972, the young Oukili learns how to be a clown really soon. Despite in Paris he was on easy street, Miloud chooses to go to work in Romania as entertainer in some hospitals and orphanages. In Bucharest he meets the city’s street children, known as “boskettari” who live in the streets and sleep in Bucharest’s sewers, eking a living out of petty crime, begging, and prostitution. Miloud succeeds in having a real dialogue with them, a dialog made of trust that helps those children to believe, for the first time in their life, in themselves.

Pa-Ra-Da tells Miloud’s story, the touching story of the “red nose angel” who was able to conquer Bucharest children: poor, doped, shabby, forced to live in the city’s subsoil. Children who live among cardboard and putrid, stinking mattresses; children who are distrustful, nasty, without any dream. Only Miloud, with his magic allure, is able to touch their hearts and give them some hope. Miloud teaches those street children how to have respect for themselves and for others; with the “boskettari” he creates a real circus company that will perform in Bucharest’s main square, proving the world that they are not rejects but human beings.

Pa-Ra-Da is a precious movie because tells a real story as a fairy tale, with respect and without looking for pity. “Life is a big circus comic and dramatic, and first of all a man must be a great clown”.

If Miloud says that, we have to believe it.